Deleting data

Check visibility, load, check roles, cascade, hooks, remove: the steps of a delete and the errors at each point. There is only hard deletion.

When children are deleted along with the parent and when they are only unlinked, that every child needs its own delete role, and that a missing role rolls back everything.

A PUT or PATCH that removes a dependent child from a list or a reference deletes it. This page explains when that happens.

When a file model is deleted, the record, the file content and all retained versions disappear. The history of the record remains, the content does not.

The history stays readable, there is no recycle bin (soft delete), and a rollback does not bring deleted objects back.