Official soft delete feature

Hey,

Do you know that Hibernate provides an official soft delete feature?

It was introduced in version 6.4 and is a great replacement for the custom solutions we had to build in the past.

(Soft delete = You deactivate/hide records instead of deleting them)

It now only takes a simple @SoftDelete annotation, and Hibernate handles the rest.

After you add this annotation, Hibernate automatically tracks if a record is active or deleted and excludes all deleted records from query results.

Here is an article that explains Hibernate's new soft delete feature with all its configuration options in more detail.

(And I also explain how to implement a soft delete when using Hibernate <=6.3)

Speak soon,

Thorben

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