This is a Laravel 8 package for cascding SoftDeletes delete/restore actions.

• Laravel 7.0 is supported since v0.1.0
• Laravel 8.0 is supported since v0.1.0
• Laravel 9.0 is supported since v1.0.2

Although this project is completely free for use, I appreciate any support!

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Contents:

• Features
• Notes
• Installation
• License

Features

• Cascade soft delete for chosen relations
• Cascade restore for chosen relations (only models with deleted_at >= restoredInstance->deleted_at value will be restored)
• Ability to follow custom query
• By default all cascade action will be added to default queue, you can change this behaviour by publishing package's config file.

Notes

• The idea of this package has been extracted from the fabulous package laravel-nestedset
• Because the package relies on deleted_at column to make the comparision when it cascades restore action, it is recommended to use $table->softDeletes('deleted_at', 6); in the migration files. Otherwise, you may restore a related model that has been deleted before the instance in a fraction of a second.

Installation

To install the package, in terminal:

composer require razisayyed/laravel-cascaded-soft-deletes

publish config

If you need to change config values for sync/async behaviour you may issue:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="RaziAlsayyed\LaravelCascadedSoftDeletes\Providers\CascadedSoftDeletesProvider" --tag="config"

Setting up

to setup CascadedSoftDeletes you need to use the trait at the parent model and define $cascadedSoftDeletes property or getCascadedSoftDeletes() method.

Simple example with $cascadedSoftDeletes property

...
<?php

use \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes;
use RaziAlsayyed\LaravelCascadedSoftDeletes\Traits\CascadedSoftDeletes;

class Page extends Model {

    use SoftDeletes;
    use CascadedSoftDeletes;

    protected $cascadedSoftDeletes = [ 'blocks' ];

    public function blocks()
    {
        return $this->hasMany(Block::class);
    }

}

<?php

use \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes;

class Block extends Model {

    use SoftDeletes;

    public function page() 
    {
        return $this->belongsTo(Page::class);
    }

}

Advanced example with getCascadedSoftDeletes and custom queries

You can also define a custom query to cascade soft deletes and restores through.

the following example describes a scenario where Folder is a model that uses NodeTrait from laravel-nestedset class and each folder has many albums. getCascadedSoftDeletes() in the example will cascade soft deletes and restores to albums related to the folder and all its decendants.

...
<?php

use \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes;
use RaziAlsayyed\LaravelCascadedSoftDeletes\Traits\CascadedSoftDeletes;

class Folder extends Model {

    use SoftDeletes;
    use NodeTrait;
    use CascadedSoftDeletes;

    public function albums()
    {
        return $this->hasMany(Album::class);
    }

    protected function getCascadedSoftDeletes()
    {
        return [
            'albums' => function() {
                return Album::whereHas('folder', function($q) {
                    $q->withTrashed()
                        ->where('_lft', '>=', $this->getLft())
                        ->where('_rgt', '<=', $this->getRgt());
                });  
            }
        ];
    }

}

Requirements for the Parent & Child model classes

• Both classes must use SoftDeletes trait.
• Parent class must use CascadedSoftDeletes trait.
• Parent class must define $cascadedSoftDeletes or implement getCascadedSoftDeletes method which must return a list of cascaded HasMany relations and/or custom Queries.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2022 Razi Alsayyed

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