letsfullstack / loopback-soft-delete-mixin

Forked mixin to soft delete models on Loopback.

Loopback SoftDelete Mixin

This module is designed for the Strongloop Loopback framework. It allows entities of any Model to be "soft deleted" by adding deletedAt and _isDeleted attributes. Queries following the standard format will no return these entities; they can only be accessed by adding { deleted: true } to the query object (at the same level as where, include etc).

To implement copy this file to mixins folder or clone this private repository (requires adding the package folder path to mixins inside model-config json file), and add "SoftDelete": true in mixins on YourModel.json file.

To delete a row or data, don't use destroyAll etc., use YourModel.delete

To find data that is considered deleted, add includeDeleted: true in where filter

Original author: Saggaf Arsyad

Node version used for development: v10.13.0

Contributing

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Installation

In your application root directory, enter this command to install the connector:

$ npm install @letsfullstack/loopback-soft-delete-mixin

Configure

To use with your Models add the mixins attribute to the definition object of your model config.

  {
    "name": "Widget",
    "properties": {
      "name": {
        "type": "string",
      },
    },
    "mixins": {
      "SoftDelete" : true,
    },
  },

There are a number of configurable options to the mixin. You can specify alternative property names for deletedAt and _isDeleted, as well as configuring deletion to "scrub" the entity. If true, this sets all but the "id" fields to null. If an array, it will only scrub properties with those names.

  "mixins": {
    "SoftDelete": {
      "deletedAt": "deletedOn",
      "_isDeleted": "isDeleted",
      "scrub": true,
    },
  },

Retrieving deleted entities

To run queries that include deleted items in the response, add { deleted: true } to the query object (at the same level as where, include etc).

Testing