How to delegate "delete" operation to another Model in Cakephp4? - php

Question

I have 2 Models (SuperRubriques and CustomRubriques) using the same table rubriques in DB.
When I delete from SuperRubriques, I would like to delegate the delete to CustomRubriques (as CustomRubriques has a hasOne association with extended_rubriques that SuperRubriques doesn't know).
For info, the rubriques table in DB has the field model containing 'CustomRubriques' (i.e. the Model with which it has been saved).
I've tried to do it in SuperRubriquesTable::beforeDete() :
// In SuperRubriquesTable.php
public function beforeDelete(Event $event, EntityInterface $entity, ArrayObject $options)
{
$table = TableRegistry::getTableLocator()->get($entity->model); // $entity->model contains 'CustomRubriques'
$rubriqueEntity = $table->get($entity->id);
return $table->delete($rubriqueEntity);
}
However $table->delete($rubriqueEntity) is true (when I debug) but the record is not deleted in DB, I don't know why?

Answer 1

I've fix the issue :
Instead of deleguating inside SuperRubriquesTable::beforeDelete(), I've done the job in SuperRubriquesController::delete() :
// In SuperRubriquesController
public function delete($id)
{
$this->request->allowMethod(['post', 'delete']);
$rubrique = $this->SuperRubriques->get($id);
$rubriqueModel = $rubrique->model;// contains 'CustomRubriques'
$this->loadModel($rubriqueModel);
$rubriqueEntity = $this->$rubriqueModel->get($id);
if ($this->$rubriqueModel->delete($rubriqueEntity)) {
return $this->redirect(['action' => 'index']);
}
}