Fast package/element deletes via automation?

[bittercoder]

Hi All,

I'm looking for the fastest way to delete a Package or Element via Automation, when I know for instance the PackageGuid or ElementGuid...

At the moment I'm grabbing the parent of the package or element, iterating through the collection of children, finding the apropriate index for the element or package I want to delete, and then deleting via a call to:

Collection.RemoveAt(index, refresh)

This seems like a lot of work to do, just to delete an element or package (and is slow!) - surely I must be missing an easier way to do this?

[dkkoenig]

 
i have the same question

[thomaskilian]

DELETE FROM T_OBJECT WHERE ...

[«Midnight»]

DELETE FROM T_OBJECT WHERE ...

Sadly, that's it.

This whole business of having to iterate is really sad, particularly in large models.

Please Sparx, come up with something a little more intuitive.

David

[thomaskilian]

Actually they have a Cache attribute for the repository. But the cache does not live long - obviously. When I work in the model then I have to use GetElementByID very often. And that seems to SQL each time. Easy for the EA programmer. Coffee time for for me