[ATLAS-2498] Soft and hard deletes, deleting a "DELETED" entity and cleanup of unused types

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.8-incubating
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mark Kiami
• Created: 13/Mar/18 17:03
• Updated: 24/Jun/19 22:58

Description

Hello,

Since the documentation on this feature not clear, could you please answer or confirm the following:

1. When an entity is deleted, its status goes to "DELETED", this is a soft delete.
2. Does Atlas version 0.8.0 support hard deletes (HDP 2.6.4 ships with 0.8.0)?
3. Is the atlas.DeleteHandler.impl configuration key supported in this version?
4. Is it possible to delete a "DELETED" entity?

I am asking this because I am stuck in the following scenario:

• Create a new ENTITY type named "custom_type"
• Create an entity of that type "entity_1_of_custom_type", its status is "ACTIVE"
• Delete the entity "entity_1_of_custom_type", its status is "DELETED"
• Delete the ENTITY type named "custom_type"
• I get an error: {"errorCode":"ATLAS-409-00-002","errorMessage":"Given type custom_type has references"}

How is it possible in this case to cleanup both the DELETED entity and the unused type "custom_type"?

Thanks!

Issue Links

• is related to: ATLAS-1729 Atlas is not allowing deletion of type with no ACTIVE instances and no other types that refer this type.