Realm Delete Cascade

example.java

/**
 * You need to call RealmUtils.deleteCascade(realmObject); 
 * instead realmObject.removeFromRealm(); Example below Update data in local database
 */
for( NodeModel nodeItem: incomingData.getNodesList() )
{
    RealmResults<NodeModel> results = bgRealm.where(NodeModel.class).equalTo("objId", nodeItem.getObjId()).findAll();
    if (results.size() > 0)
    {
        RealmUtils.deleteCascade(results.first());
    }
    bgRealm.copyToRealm(nodeItem);
}

IRealmCascade.java

/**
2) Add interface to your project. If your Realm object implement this interface all child objects will be deleted 
after call deleteCascade. If interface not implemented this function delete Realm object but don't delete child objects.
*/

public interface IRealmCascade {
}

RealmUtils.java

/**
1) Copy this code to your project
*/

import android.util.Log;

import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import io.realm.RealmList;
import io.realm.RealmObject;
import IRealmCascade;

/**
 */

public class RealmUtils
{
public static void deleteCascade( RealmObject dataObject )
{
    if (dataObject == null)
    {
        return;
    }
    if( IRealmCascade.class.isAssignableFrom( dataObject.getClass() ) )
    {
        for( Method method : dataObject.getClass().getSuperclass().getDeclaredMethods() )
        {
            try {
                //Ignore generated methods
                if( (method.getName().contains("realmGet$")) || (method.getName().contains("access$super")) )
                {
                    continue;
                }
                Class<?> resultType = method.getReturnType();
                //Ignore non object members
                if (resultType.isPrimitive()) {
                    continue;
                }

                if (RealmObject.class.isAssignableFrom(resultType)) {
                    //Delete Realm object
                    try {
                        RealmObject childObject = (RealmObject) method.invoke(dataObject);
                        RealmUtils.deleteCascade(childObject);
                    } catch (Exception ex) {
                        Log.e("REALM", "CASCADE DELETE OBJECT: " + ex.toString());
                    }
                } else if (RealmList.class.isAssignableFrom(resultType)) {
                    //Delete RealmList items
                    try {
                        RealmList childList = (RealmList) method.invoke(dataObject);
                        while( childList.iterator().hasNext() )
                        {
                            RealmObject listItem = (RealmObject)childList.iterator().next();
                            RealmUtils.deleteCascade(listItem);
                        }
                    } catch (Exception ex) {
                        Log.e("REALM", "CASCADE DELETE LIST: " + ex.toString());
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Log.e("REALM", "CASCADE DELETE ITERATION: " + ex.toString());
            }
        }
    }
    dataObject.deleteFromRealm();
}

}