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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I’m currently working on developing a plugin to support build artifacts with custom metadata. I’d like to know if there is a way to update or replace an existing content unit. There are some use cases we’ve identified where we want to replace a previous content unit that has the same unit key. This might be a rare case, and the obvious alternative is to delete the existing content unit before starting the new upload. I was wondering if there was a way to handle this during the second upload? In the Importer upload_unit function, I noticed from other plugin examples that NotUniqueError exceptions are handled by re-associating the old content unit. I might be interpreting that incorrectly. If that’s the case, most of our re-upload attempts would fail silently, and the old data would remain. Can someone help me find a way to replace, or update an existing content unit that has an identical unit key, preferably during the upload/import process?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Here is the relevant plugin code that tries to import/associate a new content unit.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> try:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> artifact = models.Artifact.from_file(file_path, metadata)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> artifact.save_and_import_content(file_path)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> repo_controller.associate_single_unit(repo.repo_obj, artifact)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> except NotUniqueError:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> artifact = artifact.__class__.objects.get(**artifact.unit_key)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> repo_controller.associate_single_unit(repo.repo_obj, artifact)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> except Exception as e:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> return {'success_flag': False, 'summary': e.message, 'details': {}}</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> return {'success_flag': True, 'summary': '', 'details': {}}</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Jay</p></div></body></html>