How to really delete a softDeletable entity?

[pfleu]

Hi, I've been searching for a while but couldn't find a solution.
Is there a way (from a controller) to actually remove a softDeletable entity from the database?
Am I missing an existing feature?
Thanks.

[nifr]

Quick 'n dirty:

$entityManager = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager('default');
$eventManager = $entityManager->getEventManager();

// remove the softdeletable subscriber
$subscriber = $this->get('knp.doctrine_behaviors.softdeletable_subscriber');
$eventManager->removeEventListener($subscriber->getSubscribedEvents(), $subscriber);

// remove entity while the subscriber is removed
$entityManager->remove($entity);
$entityManager->flush();

// add back the subscriber
$eventManager->addEventSubscriber($subscriber);

[pfleu]

@nifr : Thank you so much for your quick answer! This is just what I needed!

[pfleu]

@nifr I got the error "you have requested a non-existent service". After a quick search, I found the service in orm-services.yml and had to set "public: true" in order to get your solution to work. But this change will be lost after running composer, right? Can I make this change in a custom file somewhere else in my app so it's not lost after a composer update?

[nifr]

2 possible solutions:

1. define your controller itself as a service and inject the subscriber-service explicitly
2. create a factory-service that would return the subscriber service and call that one in your controller

[migmolrod]

Maybe you can just overwrite the subscriber in your own services.yml?
I don't know if it's a bad practice. And even haven't tried it myself to see if it works, but I'll probably need to test it very soon, since I'll need to completely disable that same filter/subscriber in my backend (so administrators can check out which entities are "soft-deleted", you know)

# app/config/services.yml
services:
    knp.doctrine_behaviors.softdeletable_subscriber:
        class:   "%knp.doctrine_behaviors.softdeletable_subscriber.class%"
        public:  true
        arguments:
            - "@knp.doctrine_behaviors.reflection.class_analyzer"
            - "%knp.doctrine_behaviors.reflection.is_recursive%"
            - "%knp.doctrine_behaviors.softdeletable_subscriber.softdeletable_trait%"
        tags:
            - { name: doctrine.event_subscriber }

[pfleu]

Thanks for the tip! I'll give it a try when I can.

[micronax]

The easiest trick to avoid any doctrine event listeners and "behaviours" is to use DQL:

$this->getDoctrine()->getManager()
             ->createQuery('DELETE FROM App\Entity\User m WHERE m.id = :id')
             ->setParameter('id', $user->getId())
             ->execute();