Hey Tim, I should have written back to the list to say my problem had been solved. Mark Diggory helped me safely delete the items with a class he wrote, and I altered, that enabled me to delete these items. The problem was that they belonged to no collection or community. The delete method in the item import class assumes the item is in a collection, and was throwing the error because these did not.
Thanks for offering to help. By the way, I posted a second question to this list yesterday about SWORD. You don't happen to have any ideas on that issue, by any chance. Thanks Tim, Bill On 9/9/11 11:56 AM, "Tim Donohue" <tdono...@duraspace.org> wrote: >Hi Bill, > >I'm curious, what are the details of the NullPointerException which is >thrown when you attempt to delete/withdraw these items from the UI? That >might give some clue as to what is missing from these items, and how >best to "temporarily fix" them to expunge them completely. > >For example, if the NullPointer has to do with the missing handle, then >it might be easiest to assign them a handle manually, so that they can >be removed via the UI. Otherwise, you are correct, you may need to dig >into the database to figure out the proper SQL query to clean them up >(but that is potentially messy for the reasons you mentioned). If you >do dig into SQL, obviously make sure to backup the DB first. > >- Tim > >On 9/7/2011 10:57 AM, Ingram, William A wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I have a couple items in my repository that somehow managed to be >>ingested without handles. They come up in searches, and are always >>listed at the top of the recent item list, but are not browsable. I do >>know the item IDs, but trying to withdraw or expunge the items throws a >>null pointer exception. >> >> Does anyone know how to safely delete these? I am hesitant to simply >>remove them from the item table because the item_id is a foreign key in >>so many other tables. Would it be better to assign them a handle first, >>and then expunge them through the gui? If so, how? >> >> Any thoughts/experience? >> >> Thanks, >> Bill >> >> -- >> Bill Ingram >> Research Programmer >> Scholarly Communication and Repository Services >> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>----- >> Using storage to extend the benefits of virtualization and iSCSI >> Virtualization increases hardware utilization and delivers a new level >>of >> agility. Learn what those decisions are and how to modernize your >>storage >> and backup environments for virtualization. >> http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51434361/ >> _______________________________________________ >> DSpace-tech mailing list >> DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Why Cloud-Based Security and Archiving Make Sense Osterman Research conducted this study that outlines how and why cloud computing security and archiving is rapidly being adopted across the IT space for its ease of implementation, lower cost, and increased reliability. Learn more. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51425301/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
