Laravel Deletable Trait

July 17, 2020 / Paul Redmond

Laravel Deletable is a package to handle deletion restrictions to your Eloquent models gracefully. The package provides a RestrictsDeletion trait for models you’d like to control deletion:

namespace App;

use F9Web\LaravelDeletable\Traits\RestrictsDeletion;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class User extends Model
{
    use RestrictsDeletion;

    public function isDeletable(): bool
    {
        return $this->orders->isEmpty();
    }
}

When a model’s isDeletable() method returns false, a model exception occurs:

namespace App\Controllers;

use F9Web\LaravelDeletable\Exceptions\NoneDeletableModel;
use App\User;

class UsersController
{
    public function destroy(User $user): bool
    {
        try {
            $user->delete();
        } catch (NoneDeletableModel $e) {
            dd($e->getMessage());
        }
    }
}

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub at f9webltd/laravel-deletable.