Overview

This Bookshelf.js plugin provides cascade delete with a simple configuration on your models.

Status

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Installation

Install the package via npm:

$ npm install --save bookshelf-cascade-delete

Usage

Require and register the bookshelf-cascade-delete plugin:

var bookshelf = require('bookshelf')(knex);
var cascadeDelete = require('bookshelf-cascade-delete');

// You need to access the `default` property since the plugin is transpilled from es6 modules syntax.
bookshelf.plugin(cascadeDelete.default);

Define which relations depend on your model when it's destroyed with the dependents prototype property:

var Post = bookshelf.Model.extend({
  tableName: 'Post'
});

var Author = bookshelf.Model.extend({
  tableName: 'Author',
  posts: function() {
    return this.hasMany(Post);
  }
}, {
  dependents: ['posts']
});

NOTE: This plugin extends the destroy method of Bookshelf's Model, so if you are extending or overriding it on your models make sure to call its prototype after your work is done:

var Author = bookshelf.Model.extend({
  tableName: 'Author',
  posts: function() {
    return this.hasMany(Post);
  },
  destroy: function() {
    // Do some stuff.
    sendDeleteAccountEmail(this);

    // Call the destroy prototype method.
    bookshelf.Model.prototype.destroy.apply(this, arguments);
  }
}, {
  dependents: ['posts']
});

Contributing

Contributions are welcome and greatly appreciated, so feel free to fork this repository and submit pull requests.

bookshelf-cascade-delete supports PostgreSQL and MySQL. You can find test suites for each of these database engines in the test/postgres and test/mysql folders.

Setting up

$ npm test

Linting

bookshelf-cascade-delete enforces linting using ESLint with the Seegno-flavored ESLint config. We recommend you to install an eslint plugin in your editor of choice, although you can run the linter anytime with:

$ eslint src test

Pull Request

Please follow these advices to simplify the pull request workflow:

Credits

This plugin's code is heavily inspired on the tkellen contribution for this issue, so cheers to him for making our job really easy!

License

MIT