How to disable soft deletes in Laravel 5.8 Eloquent model

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On my project all models extend BaseModel class, which uses SoftDeletes trait by default. But in some specific cases, e.g. in class ShouldHardDelete I don't want my DB records to be deleted softly. Let's suppose, I can't deny extending BaseModel.

What changes should I make in my ShouldHardDelete class to prevent it from using soft deletes?

out of curiosity why would you want to completely remove record? — usrNotFound
– usrNotFound, Commented Jul 11, 2019 at 5:26
@usrNotFound, I will have to insert and delete multiple records (can't simply change them, too complex logic). Soft-deletes are not so necessary for these records, keeping deleted ones in DB would cause too much disk space wasted — vvmul
– vvmul, Commented Jul 11, 2019 at 5:35
That's an option, but that would make me do some exceptional processing if I ever want to delete these objects along with some other soft-deletable ones — vvmul
– vvmul, Commented Jul 11, 2019 at 5:57

vvmul · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-11 05:58:57Z

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There are two things you should do:

There is a static method bootSoftDeletes() in SoftDeletes trait, which initializes soft-delete behaviour for the model:

    /**
     * Boot the soft deleting trait for a model.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public static function bootSoftDeletes()
    {
        static::addGlobalScope(new SoftDeletingScope);
    }

Override it in the ShouldHardDelete class to an empty method:

    /**
     * Disable soft deletes for this model
     */
    public static function bootSoftDeletes() {}

Set $forceDeleting field to true in ShouldHardDelete:

    protected $forceDeleting = true;

Thus, you can disable soft-deleting behaviour, while still extending BaseModel which uses SoftDeletes trait.

edited Jul 11, 2019 at 5:58

answered Jul 11, 2019 at 4:53

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Jignesh Joisar · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-15 12:47:12Z

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if you are using softDelete trait but don't want to use it on a specific query then you can do using the withoutGlobalScope method in the model.

User::withoutGlobalScope(Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletingScope::class)->get();

if you want to use multiple models for a specific query then better to extends eloquent builder in AppServiceProvider

public function boot()
{
   Builder::macro('withoutSoftDeletingScope', function () {
     $this->withoutGlobalScope(Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletingScope::class);

       return $this;
    });
 }

and then you can call as a method in any model

User::withoutSoftDeletingScope()->get();

answered Aug 15, 2021 at 12:47

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