JKHeadley/rest-hapi

Recover soft-deleted items

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#133 opened on Jun 28, 2018

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Aside from serving as an archival process, soft-deletion also helps perform a recovery of the deleted data. Would an update query work on soft-deleted items to remove the deleted flag? Or would it require a MongoDB update?

Describe the solution you'd like The update method can accept a flag to include soft-deleted items. This should allow their recovery.

Contributor guide

Tech stack
javascriptnodejsexpressmongodb
Domain
backendapi
Issue type
feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
half day
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
stale
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
mostly clear
Prerequisites
Familiarity with soft delete patternMongoDB basicsrest hapi codebase
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
50
Research direction
Investigate how soft delete is currently implemented in rest hapi, likely in the model or service layer (e.g., /lib/models or /lib/services). Review the update method in the codebase to understand if it already filters out soft deleted items. The issue suggests adding a flag to include soft deleted items in updates; check if any existing comments or issues discuss this approach. No linked PRs exist, so the implementation path is open.