no easy way to call destructor

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Destructors that are available over the API ("DELETE /path/to/item") can not be called easily from launchpadlib yet.

[Brad Crittenden (bac)]

I think "no easy way" is misleading. It looks like there is no possible way, using launchpadlib, to call destructors exported with @export_destructor_operation.

Some methods currently use that decorator and are non-functional and untested:

IBranch destroySelfBreakReferences()
ICodeReviewVoteReferenceEdit delete()
IHWDeviceClass delete()

[Tim Penhey (thumper)]

I was under the impression that __del__ for the entry did this. I may well be mistaken.

This isn't really a task on launchpad-code at all.

[Brad Crittenden (bac)]

The bug was linked to launchpad-code because I had not seen the linked question and it appeared there was no way to test destructors, such as destroySelfBreakReferences. Sorry for the oversight, Tim.

[Leonard Richardson (leonardr)]

Implementing this as __del__ for the entry would be a great idea, but right now bac is correct, there is _no way_ to do this. I'm working on this; it shouldn't take too long.

[Leonard Richardson (leonardr)]

lazr.restfulclient 0.9.16 makes it easy to invoke a destructor with lp_delete().