[SLING-1073] SlingFileUploadHandler removes any existing nodes, preventing file upload versioning

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Servlets Post 2.0.4
• Fix Version/s: Servlets Post 2.1.0
• Component/s: Servlets
• Assignee: Ian Boston
• Reporter: Arthur Taylor
• Created: 06/Aug/09 11:48
• Updated: 13/Sep/09 13:39
• Resolved: 24/Aug/09 14:01

Description

When uploading a file to the location of an existing file, the SlingFileUploadHandler removes the old node before creating the new one. That's sometimes necessary, for example in the cases where a typeHint is provided for the upload that differs from the type of the existing node, but it's not always required. The current behaviour prevents us maintaining a version history for uploaded resources.

I'll attach a patch for this in a sec.