RESTier Soft Delete

MyApi.cs

    public partial class MyApi : EntityFrameworkApi<MyContext>
    {
        //Other code
        
        public static new IServiceCollection ConfigureApi(Type apiType, IServiceCollection services)
        {
            return EntityFrameworkApi<MyContext>.ConfigureApi(apiType, services)
                .AddService<ISubmitExecutor, SoftDeleteSubmitExecutor>();
        }
    }

SoftDeleteSubmitExecutor.cs

    public class SoftDeleteSubmitExecutor : ISubmitExecutor
    {
        public async Task<SubmitResult> ExecuteSubmitAsync(SubmitContext context, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            // EF SubmitExecutor Required
            DbContext dbContext = context.GetApiService<DbContext>();

            // Soft Delete enable
            //
            // TODO Get deleted Entries from SubmitContext ChangeSet 
            //var deletedEntries = ((IList<DataModificationItem>)context.ChangeSet.Entries).Where(d => d.DataModificationItemAction == DataModificationItemAction.Remove);

            //if (deletedEntries.Count() > 0)
            //{
            //foreach (var entry in deletedEntries)
            foreach (var entry in context.ChangeSet.Entries)
            {
                var item = entry as DataModificationItem;

                if (item != null && item.DataModificationItemAction == DataModificationItemAction.Remove)
                {
                    var entity = item.Resource;

                    // Try to get Entity Deleted property
                    var deleted = entity.GetType().GetProperties().Where(p => p.Name == "Deleted").FirstOrDefault();

                    // If Entity has Deleted property set value to True and update EntityState to Modified instead of Deleted
                    if (deleted != null)
                    {
                        deleted.SetValue(entity, true);

                        dbContext.Entry(entity).State = EntityState.Modified;
                    }
                    // Else nothing to do and delete it.
                }
            }
            //}

            // EF SubmitExecutor Required
            await dbContext.SaveChangesAsync(cancellationToken);

            // EF SubmitExecutor Required
            return new SubmitResult(context.ChangeSet);
        }
    }

This looks great! I can see that you were trying to use a LINQ query to get back just the deleted items, instead of looping. I assume, because it's commented out, that you didn't get it to work. Would you mind providing some insight as to how you came to that conclusion?

Thanks!

OK, so I spent the day enhancing this code quite a bit. You can see it here. I've made it configurable with an HttpConfigurationExtension, so you can set it like this:

public static async void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
{
    config.Select().Filter().Expand().OrderBy().MaxTop(100).Count().CheckSoftDeleteProperty("IsDeleted", "admin");
}

If you're OK with it, I'd like to publish this to NuGet as the start of a set of Restier Extensions that help make working with the framework easier. Please LMK what you think.

Thanks!