Create a 410 error code when resource is deleted

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What’s the best way to automatically create a 410 (gone) error code when a resource is deleted? Can’t find an extra that does this and it could be useful search engine indexing purposes rather than returning a 404.

I was thinking of trying to write a plugin or fork of some other extra to use OnDocFormDelete to do this but wanted to check that someone else hasn’t already done this and I just haven’t been about to find it. Or maybe there’s a better way to do it?

Thanks.

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I don’t know of any extra that does this.

In my opinion this event won’t work. It gets invoked when a resource is deleted in the manager.

My guess is that you have to use the “OnPageNotFound” event. Then in a plugin, check if a deleted resource exists with the requested URL.
(This will only work if you don’t remove the deleted resources completely in the trash manager. Otherwise you have to keep a list/database-table of deleted resources and their URLs.)

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Thanks for the input. So I think for the way for it to function as I envision it would be a plugin that triggers on OnDocFormDelete to log the deleted resource in a database table, then a second OnPageNotFound plugin that checks that table and issues a 410 if needed. Then some form of a manager in the extras menu to manually edit the deleted resources table if needed. Time to do some reading for me.

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No need to write two plugins. You can handle different events in the same plugin.

If you are not familiar with Ext.js, I recommend using MIGXdb (part of the MIGX extra) to create the database table and the CMP (custom manager page) for editing it.

The resource has a field uri that you’ll have to save to the new table for the look-up.

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Thanks for the suggestions, I’m familiar with Migx and will look into CMPs.