VersionManager.java

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package org.modeshape.jcr.api.version;

import javax.jcr.PathNotFoundException;
import javax.jcr.RepositoryException;
import javax.jcr.UnsupportedRepositoryOperationException;

/**
 * ModeShape's extension of {@link javax.jcr.version.VersionManager}
 *
 * @author Horia Chiorean (hchiorea@redhat.com)
 */
public interface VersionManager extends javax.jcr.version.VersionManager {

    /**
     * Removes the versionable node at {@code absPath} together will all the version histories of each versionable node
     * in the subgraph, provided that only the root version exists for each versionable node and each versionable node is
     * not shared.
     * <p>
     * If the node at {@code absPath} has a parent which is in turn {@code mix:versionable} and has multiple versions of its own
     * and has an on-parent-version of {@code VERSION} for this child - in other words there are multiple version graphs on each level,
     * this method will remove all {@code nt:versionedChild} children corresponding to this node's versioned graph 
     * from the each of the {code nt:frozenNode} children of the parent's version graph. 
     * </p>
     * <p>
     * This is a workspace-write method, meaning there is no need to call {@code session.save()} in order to persist the changes.    
     * </p>
     * <b>
     * This method should only be used when wanting to clean up the version histories of versionable nodes and when there is no
     * desire to ever restore the versionable node or the graph of a parent versionable node at any time in the future.
     * </b>
     *
     * @param absPath a {@link String} the absolute path to a versionable node; never {@code null}
     * @throws javax.jcr.PathNotFoundException if no node exists at {@code absPath}
     * @throws UnsupportedRepositoryOperationException if the given node is not {@code mix:versionable} or any versionable node
     * in the hierarchy has a non-empty version history or any versionable node in the hierarchy is a shared node.
     * @throws javax.jcr.RepositoryException if anything unexpected fails while performing the operation
     */
    public void remove(String absPath) throws UnsupportedRepositoryOperationException, PathNotFoundException,RepositoryException;
}