Soft deletes are not yet supported

[heyiammushu]

My model implements soft deleting just as laravel documentation is describing it: uses SoftDeletes trait and has deleted_at column in migration. When I call delete method of the model outside the json api server it works fine - I still have record with deleted_at column updated. But when I am deleting record using json api server route, it's just gone and acting like force delete. Where is the point I am losing here, how to implement soft delete inside json api server?

[lindyhopchris]

Hi! So the package is tagged as alpha releases at the moment, because although it's got a lot of features it's missing a few key things. One of those is support for soft deletes.

So the answer is it will be supported but I just haven't quite got to it yet.

[FuturFuturFutur]

Hi! So the package is tagged as alpha releases at the moment, because although it's got a lot of features it's missing a few key things. One of those is support for soft deletes.

So the answer is it will be supported but I just haven't quite got to it yet.

Can I help you with it? I could implement this feature if you will put me on the way.

[lindyhopchris]

Hmmm, thanks for the offer but this isn't trivial to implement - so think I'll have to take this one.

[lindyhopchris]

This will be in the next release, which will either be alpha.5 or beta.1 - not sure yet.

If you want to give it a go now, use:

composer require laravel-json-api/laravel:dev-develop

The documentation (as it's not yet on the laraveljsonapi.io website) is here:
https://github.com/laravel-json-api/docs/blob/develop/1.0/schemas/soft-deleting.md