create class level methods such as delete
Reported by jack dempsey (jackdempsey) | April 15th, 2008 @ 09:08 PM
It would be useful to have the ability to make class level calls such as Object.delete(id) rather than Object[id].destroy which will generate two calls to the DB. ActiveRecord has similar methods and would probably be a good basis to look at for some examples of other similar methods.
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Dan Kubb (dkubb) April 15th, 2008 @ 09:13 PM
- Milestone cleared.
In general I think this is a good idea. However one question we should ask before implementing this is that if we allow a way to delete without checking the associations we could create orphan records.
Since we're going to allow the user to specify the behavior on-delete (like cascade, restrict, etc) we may need to check the associations in some cases. In one case (like restrict) we may be able to do a SELECT COUNT(*) for each association, and allow the delete if all the counts are 0. Cascade is even trickier, but IMHO we need to handle those cases.
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Dan Kubb (dkubb) April 15th, 2008 @ 09:20 PM
- State changed from “new” to “open”
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Sam Smoot April 27th, 2008 @ 10:57 PM
- State changed from “open” to “invalid”
I'm pushing this off... I could go either way on wether it's "right" or "wrong" to support this right now. I don't think it's a blocker for 0.9.0 tho'.
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jack dempsey (jackdempsey) April 27th, 2008 @ 11:03 PM
Cool...definitely not a blocker, and Dan brings up some good points on how to deal with implementation and things like orphaned records...I think the ability to support it tho, especially as I think there'd be some way to inspect the object (and see what other records might need to be updated, with just the simple class level call) would be valuable.
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