Delete Relational Data Automatically Upon Deleting Main Data

[ChristopherGabba]

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JavaScript Framework

React Native

Amplify APIs

GraphQL API

Amplify Version

v6

Amplify Categories

api

Backend

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Describe the bug

Not necessarily a bug but more of a question / feature request. If I have relational data like so:

User: a
    .model({
      id: a.id().required(),
      birthdate: a.string().required(),
      email: a.email().required(),
      firstName: a.string().required(),
      lastName: a.string().required(),
      username: a.string().required(),
      phoneNumber: a.hasOne("PhoneNumber", "userId"),
      pushToken: a.string(),
      profileImageS3Path: a.string(),
      profileImageBlurhash: a.string(),
      groups: a.hasMany("UserGroup", "userId"),
      status: a.ref("UserStatus").required(),
      sentFriendships: a.hasMany("Friendship", "senderId"),
      receivedFriendships: a.hasMany("Friendship", "receiverId"),
      recents: a.hasMany("Recent", "ownerId"),
    })
    .secondaryIndexes((index) => [
      index("status").queryField("listActiveUsersByFirstName").sortKeys(["firstName"]),
      index("email").name("byEmail").queryField("listUsersByEmail"),
    ])
    .authorization((allow) => [allow.publicApiKey().to(["read"]), allow.authenticated()]),
Friendship: a
    .model({
      id: a.id().required(),
      receiverId: a.id().required(),
      receiver: a.belongsTo("User", "receiverId"),
      senderId: a.id().required(),
      sender: a.belongsTo("User", "senderId"),
      status: a.ref("FriendStatus").required(),
      recents: a.hasMany("Recent", "friendshipId"),
      owners: a.string().array(),
    })

    .secondaryIndexes((index) => [
      index("senderId")
        .name("bySenderId")
        .sortKeys(["receiverId"])
        .queryField("listFriendshipsBySenderId"),
      index("receiverId")
        .name("byReceiverId")
        .sortKeys(["senderId"])
        .queryField("listFriendshipsByReceiverId"),
    ])
    .authorization((allow) => [
      allow.authenticated().to(["read"]),
      allow.ownersDefinedIn("owners"),
    ]),
  Group: a
    .model({
      id: a.id().required(),
      name: a.string().required(),
      groupImageS3Path: a.string().required(),
      groupImageBlurhash: a.string().required(),
      users: a.hasMany("UserGroup", "groupId"),
      reelFeels: a.hasMany("ReelFeel", "groupId"),
      recents: a.hasMany("Recent", "groupId"),
      owners: a.string().array(),
    })
    .authorization((allow) => [
      allow.authenticated().to(["read"]),
      allow.ownersDefinedIn("owners"),
    ]),

Where a friendship has users and so does groups, and they are linked together through hasMany relationships. When I delete a user, can I make it automatically delete friendships and groups for instance with that user in it?

I find it very annoying code wise such that every time I'm going to delete a user, I have to:

1. Query all Friendship objects with that user
2. Delete all Friendship objects with that user
3. Query all Group objects with that user
4. Delete all Group objects with that user
5. Query all Post objects with that user
6. Delete all Post objects with that user
7. Delete the user FINALLY

Is there a way to make it to where, they I can just say client.models.User.delete and then it automatically deletes all related data?

Expected behavior

N/A Mentioned above.

Reproduction steps

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Code Snippet

See above

Log output

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aws-exports.js

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Manual configuration

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Additional configuration

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Mobile Device

iPhone 12

Mobile Operating System

iOS 17

Mobile Browser

Safari

Mobile Browser Version

N/A

Additional information and screenshots

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[ChristopherGabba]

Apologies, should've done some more searching. This has been requested as a feature for quite some time. 3 years.
aws-amplify/amplify-category-api#273