Is there a best practice to delete logs on forceDelete?

[ChrisAdels]

Hey, thx for the nice package. I use softDelete and want to delete all records of the current model on forceDelete. What would be the best practice? Do I have to search with eloquent for the logs and delete them or is there something ready to use? I could only found the general clear command. Thanks

[Gummibeer]

I would use an observer and clear the relationship on deleted.

[ChrisAdels]

Thx, for the quick answer. So in an Observer would check for "isForceDeleting" and then I would delete the entities with Activity::where('subject_type',get_class($exampleModel))->where(subject_id, $exampleId)->delete(); ? 😅 Or what do you mean with "clear the relationship"? I mean if I just remove the id I would be left with lots of unnecessary blank entries, wouldn't I?

[Gummibeer]

No, you can use the activities relationship from the models trait.

laravel-activitylog/src/Traits/LogsActivity.php

Lines 80 to 83 in bdc4486

	public function activities(): MorphMany
	{
	return $this->morphMany(ActivitylogServiceProvider::determineActivityModel(), 'subject');
	}

[ChrisAdels]

ah perfect 🤩 sry, I didn't see that - much better solution 🙈 thanks