Gorm How to update UpdatedAt along with DeletedAt on soft-delete.

Your Question

Hello.

I have a system where several microservices uses Gorm. I would like to update Gorm to set the field UpdatedAt to the same timestamp DeletedAt get set to during a soft-delete.

Because there are many microservices with many models, I would like to do this without having to modify the model struct themselves. Ideally via a hook or something similar.

I have tried using a global hook to modify the clause.Set of the statement to include UpdatedAt, but it seems that soft-delete.go will overwrite it.

How can I go about doing this?

The document you expected this should be explained

https://gorm.io/docs/hooks.html

Expected answer

It would be great if I could define a global hook and modify the Set statement before the update/delete query is called.

db.Callback().Delete().Before("gorm:delete").Register(hookName, updateUpdatedAtWithSoftDelete)

func updateUpdatedAtWithSoftDelete(db *gorm.DB) {
    //Overwrite the Set query here
}

Query I want

UPDATE `database_name`.`table_name` SET `deleted_at`=?, `updated_at`=? WHERE `database_name`.`id` = ? AND `database_name`.`deleted_at` IS NULL`

Thank you for your assistance.

Comment From: a631807682

refer to https://gorm.io/docs/sql_builder.html#Clauses https://github.com/go-gorm/gorm/blob/master/soft_delete.go

Comment From: liranddd

@Stefancomvex https://medium.com/tailor-tech/gorm-soft-delete-how-to-update-the-updated-at-field-automatically-7da7817f796a