Rob, I use soft deletes all the time in Transfer. In essence, it's simply an update to a particular column.
My understanding from what Mark has said in the past is that because everyone does soft deletes in a different way, in fact your way, involving a date field, is different from mine, so it's somewhat difficult to implement in Transfer in a way that would work well for everyone. I know Brian Kotek is a big fan of injecting transfer into his decorators, precisely into an abstract decorator, wrapping transfer methods to enable stuff like myObject.save(). If you adopted that approach, you could overwrite the abstract decorator on the concrete to enable your approach to soft deletes, even a varying approach as you've described, and it would be nicely abstracted away so that everywhere in your app you'd call myObject.delete(). I haven't done that in my current app, but I have it mind for next time. Nando On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Sir Rawlins <robert.rawl...@thinkbluemedia.co.uk> wrote: > > Hi John, thanks. > > Yeah the way I see its implementation working would be to keep the > delete method invoketion the same, just change its implementation > dependant on the XML configuration, this would allow some objects to > be properly deleted and other only soft deleted likewise with > cascading the deletes, sometimes I'll want a parent object to be soft > deleted but its children are not audited so they can be properly > removed :-) > > I kind of remember someone mentioning it was on the roadmap when I > last asked a few months back, perhaps I'll play around with some > patches and suggestions for Mark and see if I cant accelerate it a > little. > > Rob > > On Mar 3, 4:01 pm, John Whish <john.wh...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> I believe that soft delete is already on the road map. I haven't tried it, >> but you should be able to overwrite the Transfer save method to do an update >> instead of a delete. So you code would still call the delete method. > > > -- Nando M. Breiter The CarbonZero Project CP 234 6934 Bioggio Switzerland +41 76 303 4477 na...@carbonzero.ch --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Before posting questions to the group please read: http://groups.google.com/group/transfer-dev/web/how-to-ask-support-questions-on-transfer You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "transfer-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to transfer-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to transfer-dev-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/transfer-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
