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The missing link between softdeleteable from doctrine/extensions, Symfony Form component and Symfony UX Autocomplete.

Warning!

If you need to use this it most likely means that you have a bad architecture of your software. If you allow deletion or soft deletion you should first make sure that each related entity is updated first with null or new relation. This form type is meant to be used for transition purposes in systems which need to quickly add soft deletion on some entities which are used in relations, but due to time or other resources it is impossible to upgrade the actual processes.

Purpose

If you are using the softdeleteable filter and EntityType forms you may encounter a situation when your CRUD Edit form in which the related entity is no longer available as soft removed. This form type will make the form still properly render, but forcing the user to update the relation using the form.

In such situation, using standard entity type you may see a screen like this:

If you install package idct/symfony-form-soft-delete-aware-entity-type and use the SoftDeleteAwareEntityType it will revert to the placeholder forcing user to update:

This package, extension, add support for handling the same way soft deleted entities with symfony/ux-autocomplete:

Compatibility

• Symfony 6 or 7.
• Sonata Admin 3+

Installation

First require it in your project:

composer require idct/symfony-form-soft-delete-aware-entity-type-ux-type

NOTE: you need to also configure idct/symfony-form-soft-delete-aware-entity-type.

As this is not a bundle register in your services (for example services.yaml) file:

If you have autowiring:

    IDCT\SymfonyFormSoftDeleteAwareEntityType\SoftDeleteAwareEntityType: ~
    IDCT\SymfonyFormSoftDeleteAwareEntityType\Ux\BaseSoftDeleteEntityAutocompleteType: ~

If you do not use autowiring you need to pass doctrine as the first argument:

    IDCT\SymfonyFormSoftDeleteAwareEntityType\SoftDeleteAwareEntityType:
        arguments:
            - '@doctrine'

    IDCT\SymfonyFormSoftDeleteAwareEntityType\Ux\BaseSoftDeleteEntityAutocompleteType: ~
        arguments:
            - '@doctrine'

Now create your autocomplete Form Type class, same as with UX Autocomplete, but use the parent coming out of this package:

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Form;

use App\Entity\DeletableEntity;
use IDCT\SymfonyFormSoftDeleteAwareEntityType\Ux\BaseSoftDeleteEntityAutocompleteType;
use Praetorian\Sportsbook\Orm\Entity\Currency;
use Symfony\Component\Form\AbstractType;
use Symfony\Component\OptionsResolver\OptionsResolver;
use Symfony\UX\Autocomplete\Form\AsEntityAutocompleteField;

#[AsEntityAutocompleteField]
class EntityWithDeletableRelationAutocompleteType extends AbstractType
{
    public function configureOptions(OptionsResolver $resolver)
    {
        $resolver->setDefaults([
            'class' => DeletableEntity::class,
            'placeholder' => 'placeholder',
            'choice_label' => 'name'
        ]);
    }

    public function getParent(): string
    {
        return BaseSoftDeleteEntityAutocompleteType::class;
    }
}

And that is all! The rest is normal form usage.

Testing

Tool has a testing toolchain prepared using Docker. If you have docker installed simply run ./run-tests.sh.

This will run unit tests with PHPUnit, generate code-coverage report and run some functional e-2-e tests using Behat and Chrome Driver.

Contribution

Any contribution is more then welcome, please file any issues or pull requests, yet when possible please try to make sure that tests are working.