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David Kantor commented on ATLAS-622: ------------------------------------ I agree with Venkat that hard delete is a requirement, and that soft delete should be optional. Any soft delete implementation should be transparent to applications i.e. Atlas would filter out soft-deleted entities from query results and applications would not need to implement any filtering. > Introduce soft delete > --------------------- > > Key: ATLAS-622 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-622 > Project: Atlas > Issue Type: Sub-task > Reporter: Shwetha G S > Assignee: Shwetha G S > > Currently, in entity delete API, the entity and its related > entities(composite entities) are deleted and there is no trace of it in the > system. Instead, change delete to mark the entities to be deleted with > state=DELETED -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)