How can I avoid validation() that is used on $my_monkey->save() when executing $my_monkey->delete()

Isn't your problem in SoftDelete trait or what does your SoftDelete exactly do?

Phalcon doesn't perform validation on model delete, only on save, you can check it here (_preSave method makes validation)

https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/blob/master/phalcon/mvc/model.zep

You can suppress validation and other events :( globally by setting

orm.events = 0

@david-hubner:

My issue is that I would have it that the SoftDelete trait can be implemented in a later phase of development with no impact to the behaviour of the class it is used in besides introducing the status field and adding the behaviour.

I beleive that if SoftDelete prevents a true deletion of the record and updates the status field without triggering validation() or beforeSave() then it behaves more transparantly at the level of my_document->delete().

Maybe this is not safe.

In any case I readjusted my validation logic to handle the fact that validation is triggered in softDelete() and it now handles.

@baychae

I am having exectly same situation and egar to know your solution for readjusted validation logic.

Please expalain what is the solution to apply for avoiding validation for softDelete().

public function validation()
  {
    $validator = new Validation();

    $validator->add(
      'email', //your field name
      new EmailValidator([
        'model' => $this,
        'message' => 'Please enter a correct email address'
      ])
    );

    $validator->add(
      'email',
      new UniquenessValidator([
        'model' => $this,
        'message' => 'Sorry, That email is already taken',
      ])
    );

    return $this->validate($validator);
  }

@mgr1286 . Hi sorry it was some time ago so cannot confirm. Apologies as I should have written what I did.

I beleive that in soft deleteable trait I did something like this:

<?php

namespace Common\Models\Traits;

use Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Validator\InclusionIn;

trait MySoftDeletable {

    public function beforeValidation() {

        $this->validate(new Inclusionin(
                array(
            "field" => "status",
            "domain" => array("A", "D", "L")
                )
        ));

        if ($this->validationHasFailed() == true) {
            return false;
        }
    }

    public function beforeDelete() {

        $this->validate(new Inclusionin(
                array(
            "field" => "status",
            "domain" => array("A", "D", "L")
                )
        ));

        if ($this->validationHasFailed() == true) {
            return false;
        }

    }

}

So I didn't call validation() in my trait.

@baychae

I am having exectly same situation and egar to know your solution for readjusted validation logic.

Please expalain what is the solution to apply for avoiding validation for softDelete().

public function validation()
 {
   $validator = new Validation();

   $validator->add(
     'email', //your field name
     new EmailValidator([
       'model' => $this,
       'message' => 'Please enter a correct email address'
     ])
   );

   $validator->add(
     'email',
     new UniquenessValidator([
       'model' => $this,
       'message' => 'Sorry, That email is already taken',
     ])
   );

   return $this->validate($validator);
 }

@baychae

Thank you for your prompt responce.

I will try the approach as per your reference and will let you know. For now going to add a custom soft delete function in the base model using PHQL.