Circular dependencies lead to undeletable libraries

Submitted by serettig on Fri, 06/26/2020 - 17:56
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Hi,

I've noticed that it is impossible to delete certain libraries from the system. This is the result of circular dependencies between these libraries: H5P.InteractiveVideo has a dependency on H5PEditor.InteractiveVideo and vice versa. Because of this both libraries are required by at least another library and they can never be deleted from the system.

Sebastian

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BV52

Fri, 06/26/2020 - 18:47

Hi Sebastian,

Thank you for reporting this. I created a report and you can follow the progress here.

-BV

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otacke

Fri, 06/04/2021 - 18:14

Hi all!

That's something that has been bugging me for years, but I always simply edited the h5p_libraries_libraries table of the database whenever I needed to delete one of these uncanny view-editor-entanglements. Well, I have now created a simple reference implementation for WordPress that I'd gladly port  to Drupal and Moodle if the respective pull requests at https://github.com/h5p/h5p-wordpress-plugin/pull/125 and https://github.com/h5p/h5p-php-library/pull/101 are acceptable. I also added a hint to https://h5ptechnology.atlassian.net/browse/HFP-3065 already - hoping that this time, when someone starts working on an issue, checks for pull requests first before implementing the respective feature again from scratch ;-)

Cheers,
Oliver