How to disable soft delete (Soft-deleteable) filter for doctrine in symfony

Question

Installing and using SoftDeleteable behavior extension for Doctrine 2 is quite easy. The problem usually is trying to disable it for some code part and enabling again. You may w

Answer 1

You can use a service to disable and reenable the soft delete filter behaviour:

getEventManager()->getListeners() as $eventName => $listeners) {
            foreach ($listeners as $listener) {
                if ($listener instanceof SoftDeleteableListener) {
                    if ($eventName === self::EVENT_NAME) {
                        $this->originalEventListener = $listener;
                        $em->getEventManager()->removeEventListener($eventName, $listener);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * @param EntityManagerInterface $em
     */
    public function undoRemoveSoftDeleteFilter(EntityManagerInterface $em)
    {
        if (empty($this->originalEventListener)) {
            throw new \Exception('can not undo remove, soft delete listener was not removed');
        }
        // re-add the removed listener back to the event-manager
        $em->getEventManager()->addEventListener(self::EVENT_NAME, $this->originalEventListener);
    }
}

usage:

$this->softDeleteFilter->removeSoftDeleteFilter($this->entityManager);
$this->entityManager->remove($entity);
$this->entityManager->flush();
$this->softDeleteFilter->undoRemoveSoftDeleteFilter($this->entityManager);