Allow Emptying Trash - Githubissues

fcheslack commented 8 years ago

We should allow emptying the entire trash with a single operation from the web library.

get the full list of items in the trash (/items/trash?format=keys)
confirm the user wants to permanently delete X items (?)
perform the multiple DELETE requests to permanently delete the items (probably in series, rather than parallel)
report the progress of the operation as it goes

Parts of this could potentially be re-used in other contexts, such as reporting progress for multi-request operations (bulk edit?)

Emptying the trash is easily the most requested such option, but we could also potentially apply other operations to all items in a view (rather than just the N items currently displayed) such as moving to a collection or tagging, but that involves harder UI questions.

tnajdek commented 4 years ago

We should probably wait for zotero/dataserver#5

dstillman commented 1 year ago

I don't think we want to support this in the API. Someone could have 100K items in the trash, so it can't necessarily be done in a single request. So I think doing it in batches with a progress meter makes more sense.

zotero / web-library

Allow Emptying Trash #38