How to Do Soft Delete in Django-CodePudding

Hi I am new to Django and I have just completed CRUD using django and postgresql.

now my aim is to do SOftDelete but I am unable to do it

below is my code

def Delemp(request,id):
    delemployee = EmpModel.objects.get(id=id)
    delemployee.delete()
    showdata=EmpModel.objects.all()
    return render(request,"Index.html",{"data":showdata})

I am unable to convert the function in such a way that It would perform softdelete instead of hard delete,please help

CodePudding user response：

Deletion in Django orm; By default, it like to hard delete. For soft delete you have to use a package or write your own manager class.

https://django-safedelete.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ It is easy to implement in a Django project. I recommend. It provides hard-soft delete control with policies.

CodePudding user response：

In your case the soft delete doesn't work, since you don't use the object anymore. If it's still referenced, then it should work. Please look example from the links for details:

# Example of use

>>> article1 = Article(name='article1')
>>> article1.save()

>>> article2 = Article(name='article2')
>>> article2.save()

>>> order = Order(name='order')
>>> order.save()
>>> order.articles.add(article1)

# This **article will be masked**, but not deleted from the database as it is still referenced in an order.
>>> article1.delete()

# This **article will be deleted** from the database.
>>> article2.delete()