symfony 1.4 chaining preDelete events for related tables

Question

Is there a way to chain the preDelete() events in Symfony 1.4?

I have two tables: one master and one slave. In schema.yml I have defined them so that the slave records CASCADE the Deletion when a master record gets deleted.

But also, the slave deletion process needs to run some preprocessing which I'm intending to code in the preDelete event method of the slave record definition.

If I delete the slave record alone, I can get to this preDelete() event but if I delete the slave record through the master record, I only access to the preDelete() event in the master record definition. Can I access the preDelete event in the slave by the way of the master one?

Relevant code follows:

schema.yml

Master:
  relations:
    Slave:

Slave:
  relations:
    Master:
      onDelete: CASCADE

lib/model/doctrine/Master.class.php

class Master extends BaseMaster
{
  public function preDelete($event)
  {
    //master predelete processing...
  }
}

lib/model/doctrine/Slave.class.php

class Slave extends BaseSlave
{
  public funcion preDelete($event)
  {
    //slave predelete processing...
  }
}

Dziamid Dziamid · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-22T00:39:02

This wouldn't work, because "onDelete: CASCADE" is a database event, hence there's no way of hooking it to your code. To to able to do that, you need to use application cascade delete, which is less efficient though.

Slave:
  columns:
    master_id: integer

Master:
  columns: ~
  relations:
    Slave:
      local: id
      foreign: master_id
      type: many
      foreignType: one
      cascade: [delete]

Notice also that you will have to define the relation on the opposite side in this case.

symfony 1.4 chaining preDelete events for related tables

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