[Flow] Question regarding deleted objects

[David Sporer]

Hi Marc,

thank you!
I’ve now implemented it this way.

Regards,
David

> Am 02.04.2015 um 12:35 schrieb Marc Neuhaus <apocalip at gmail.com>:
> 
> You could simply use the object and user as argument for the link. In the
> default case
> where the objects exists you can show the object, otherwise you could
> directly forward
> to some page of that user.
> 
> As a concrete example, if you'd have some hosted "blogging" platform, you
> routes could look like this:
> 
>    /blog/[someUserName]/[somePostName]
> 
> That username + postname would correspond to some uuid of course, so now
> you could model your action somethink like this:
> 
>    if (post does not exist) {
>        redirect to user overview
>    }
> 
>    show post
> 
> I hope i explained my idea properly :)
> 
> Cheers
> Marc
> 
> 2015-04-02 12:25 GMT+02:00 David Sporer <david.sporer at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Hey guys,
>> 
>> I have a general questions regarding the optimal way of handling objects,
>> especially deleted objects.
>> I have customers/users that can create objects. Every object has a unique
>> link which is working fine until the customer decides to delete some
>> objects.
>> The problem then is that Flow throws an exception (Exception while
>> property mapping for target type „bla“, at path with identitiy not found).
>> Currently I’m showing a nice error page, means the user that tries to open
>> the link is not redirected to the Flow Exception page.
>> But the ideal way would be to know the parent customer of the deleted
>> object because I could then redirect the user that tries to access the
>> object to a page where he can send a message to the customer e.g.
>> Soft deletion is not really something I want to do because in some cases
>> there could be really lots of objects associated with the objects that are
>> deleted.
>> 
>> What would be your approach of handling this? Just a (maybe stupid) idea
>> would be to save the identifier of the object before deleting it and doing
>> a lookup for the identifier if a object is not found. Question in this case
>> would be how to hook into the Exception that is thrown.
>> 
>> Can you help me? :-)
>> 
>> Regards,
>> David
>> 
>> Btw.: I’ve been at Inspiring Conference last weekend. Thanks for everyone
>> making this such an awesome event. I’ve been really working my whole week
>> of vacation so far on ideas I had because of the talks :-)
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