If you are using SQL Server you can use an INSTEAD OF DELETE trigger. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191208.aspx
Then you can just let Transfer do its thing, and have your database handle it. Sean On Mar 3, 11:23 am, Nando <d.na...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
