Soft Delete Extension ===================== Sometimes you may not want to delete data from your database completely, but you want to disable or temporarily delete some records so they do not appear anymore in your frontend. Then, later you might want to restore that deleted data like it was never deleted. This is possible with the ``SoftDelete`` extension which can be found on `github`_. Installation ------------ First you just need to get the code by cloning the `github`_ repository: .. code-block:: console $ git clone git://github.com/doctrine/mongodb-odm-softdelete.git Now once you have the code you can setup the autoloader for it: .. code-block:: php register(); Setup ----- Now you can autoload the classes you need to setup the ``SoftDeleteManager`` instance you need to manage the soft delete state of your documents: .. code-block:: php deletedAt; } // ... } Usage ----- Once you have the ``$sdm`` you can start managing the soft delete state of your documents: .. code-block:: php getRepository('User')->findOneByUsername('jwage'); $fabpot = $dm->getRepository('User')->findOneByUsername('fabpot'); $sdm->delete($jwage); $sdm->delete($fabpot); $sdm->flush(); The call to ``SoftDeleteManager#flush()`` would persist the deleted state to the database for all the documents it knows about and run a query like the following: .. code-block:: javascript db.users.update({ _id : { $in : userIds }}, { $set : { deletedAt : new Date() } }) Now if we were to restore the documents: .. code-block:: php restore($jwage); $sdm->flush(); It would execute a query like the following: .. code-block:: javascript db.users.update({ _id : { $in : userIds }}, { $unset : { deletedAt : true } }) Events ------ We trigger some additional lifecycle events when documents are soft deleted and restored: - Events::preSoftDelete - Events::postSoftDelete - Events::preRestore - Events::postRestore Using the events is easy, just define a class like the following: .. code-block:: php getDocument(); $sdm = $args->getSoftDeleteManager(); } public function getSubscribedEvents() { return array(Events::preSoftDelete); } } Now we just need to add the event subscriber to the EventManager: .. code-block:: php addEventSubscriber($eventSubscriber); When we soft delete something the preSoftDelete() method will be invoked before any queries are sent to the database: .. code-block:: php delete($fabpot); $sdm->flush(); Cascading Soft Deletes ---------------------- You can easily implement cascading soft deletes by using events in a certain way. Imagine you have a User and Post document and you want to soft delete a users posts when you delete him. You just need to setup an event listener like the following: .. code-block:: php getSoftDeleteManager(); $document = $args->getDocument(); if ($document instanceof User) { $sdm->deleteBy('Post', array('user.id' => $document->getId())); } } public function preRestore(LifecycleEventArgs $args) { $sdm = $args->getSoftDeleteManager(); $document = $args->getDocument(); if ($document instanceof User) { $sdm->restoreBy('Post', array('user.id' => $document->getId())); } } public function getSubscribedEvents() { return array( Events::preSoftDelete, Events::preRestore ); } } Now when you delete an instance of User it will also delete any Post documents where they reference the User being deleted. If you restore the User, his Post documents will also be restored. .. _github: https://github.com/doctrine/mongodb-odm-softdelete