Django Archive Mixin
Implements a soft delete / archive capability for the Django ORM.
This project is inspired by other similar projects, such as
- https://github.com/scoursen/django-softdelete, or
- https://github.com/makinacorpus/django-safedelete, and
- any of the packages in https://www.djangopackages.com/packages/p/django-safedelete/
This implementation differs in that it not only safely marks an instance as
deleted, but it also implements that cascade logic so that relationships that
point to the recently "deleted" instance do not break your application.
We piggyback on Django's own delete logic/methodology to help guarentee that
it will cascade as expected and will abide by Django's on_delete api for
ForeignKeys.
Testing
We test this against a postgres database, once you have postgres installed in
running, testing is as simple as
./runtests.sh