Symfony2 / Doctrine: Reading "deleted" data when using Gedmo's doctrine extensions

Question

I'm building a Symfony2 project and am using gedmo/doctrine-extensions (GitHub) to implement soft delete. My question is whether there's a way to "disable" or "override" softdelete, or even detect if something has been soft deleted.

Here's the situation:

I have a "note" entity that references a "user" entity. A specific note references a user that has been soft deleted. Even though the user has been deleted, it returns true for TWIG's "is defined" logic and can even return the id of the deleted user. However, if I query for any other information (including the "deletedAt" parameter that marks whether or not it is been deleted) I get a 500 "Entity was not found" error.

Since the data is actually still there, and since the note itself hasn't been deleted, I'd still like to say who's written the note, even though the user has been deleted.

Is that possible? If not, how do I properly detect whether something has been soft deleted? Like I said, $note->getUser() still retrieves an object and returns true for any null / "is defined" comparisons.

Answer 1

You can do this by :

$filter = $em->getFilters()->enable('soft-deleteable');
$filter->disableForEntity('Entity\User');
$filter->enableForEntity('Entity\Note');