If I delete a node that has one-to-many relations, are the related nodes also deleted? Or do I need to delete them manually before deleting the node that contains the relations?

might be faster to try that in Playground instead of waiting for answer here, don't you think ? 🙂

haha yes actually I just did 🙂

you could use the function

do you know if there is a way to do it in one mutation?

That is what I was suggesting I guess it wouldn’t save that much in the end but I was thinking it would be cleaner to react to the mutation with a function.

hm, you mean like a subscription for a delete mutation? I believe that would not work, because subscription happens after mutation is finished ... with nested relations it would not even pass through delete mutation

A function would have the advantage that the mutation is more transactional... If the client is responsible for first deleting the related nodes and then the "parent node", I might end up in a state where some related nodesd are deleted but the parent is not. In my case that could have quite catastrophic consequences.

in my opinion it's much easier to have some flag in the parent node marking it as "deleted" and update query filters accordingly ... unless you have a lot of data and you need those deleted

ah i like this idea. I can live with the extra data I think..

yeah that is a good idea plus gives you the ability to revert changes if need be 👍 @Daniel K.

If the data becomes a problem I could still do a cron task to delete them from time to time