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package org.eurekastreams.server.persistence.mappers.db;
import org.eurekastreams.server.domain.GadgetDefinition;
import org.eurekastreams.server.persistence.mappers.BaseArgDomainMapper;
/**
* Deletes a gadget definition (and all the gadgets using it).
*/
public class DeleteGadgetDefinition extends BaseArgDomainMapper<Long, Void>
{
/**
* {@inheritDoc}
*/
@Override
public Void execute(final Long inRequest)
{
// The relationship defined on GadgetDefinition to Gadget includes only the "undeleted" gadgets (ones whose
// "deleted" flag is false), so deleting the GadgetDefinition will only cascade the delete to that subset of
// Gadgets. So if there are any Gadgets where deleted is true, they are not deleted, and the foreign key
// constraint prevents the GadgetDefinition from being deleted.
// The "if deleted = false" may be convenient for queries - you can retrieve a gadget definition and don't have
// to think about filtering out deleted gadgets, but it results in truly messed up table relationships. The
// proper way to resolve this is to remove that clause, but since I don't want to track down and resolve all the
// places that currently assume the gadgets are pre-filtered at this point, we just manually delete the Gadgets
// (children) before deleting the GadgetDefinition (parent).
// TODO: Resolve this properly as described above
getEntityManager().createQuery("DELETE Gadget WHERE gadgetDefinition.id=:id").setParameter("id", inRequest)
.executeUpdate();
getEntityManager().remove(getHibernateSession().load(GadgetDefinition.class, inRequest));
return null;
}
}