ZF2, Doctrine2, Gedmo - SoftDelete JTI Entity with associations - doctrine-orm

Question

I'm trying to soft delete a complete Customer. A Customer extends User. Customer also has associated InvoiceAddress[] entities.
It however, does not work. If the Customer has #Gedmo\SoftDeleteable, it fails on the Foreign Key association with User. If I also make the User entity soft delete-able, then it fails on the association between Customer and InvoiceAddress.
If I make the relation between Customer and InvoiceAddress to cascade={"persist", "remove"} (added remove), then it hard deletes all entities related to the Customer.
I figure it might be something in the configuration, though having read multiple questions and (of course) the docs of the SoftDeleteable extension itself, I haven't figured out what/where I'm doing something wrong.
Below is my setup, I've removed stuff from the code unrelated to the question.
Customer.php
namespace Customer\Entity;
use Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Gedmo\Mapping\Annotation as Gedmo;
use Gedmo\SoftDeleteable\SoftDeleteable;
// moar
/**
* #ORM\Table
* #ORM\Entity
*
* #Gedmo\SoftDeleteable(fieldName="deletedAt", timeAware=false)
*/
class Customer extends User implements SoftDeleteable
{
use GedmoDeletedAtTrait;
/**
* #var ArrayCollection|InvoiceAddress[]
* #ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="Customer\Entity\InvoiceAddress", mappedBy="customer", cascade={"persist"}, fetch="EAGER")
*/
protected $invoiceAddresses;
// properties, __construct(){}, getters/setters...
}
User.php
namespace User\Entity;
use BjyAuthorize\Provider\Role\ProviderInterface;
use Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Mvc\Entity\AbstractEntity;
use ZfcUser\Entity\UserInterface;
/**
* #ORM\Table
* #ORM\Entity
* #ORM\HasLifecycleCallbacks
*
* #ORM\InheritanceType("JOINED")
* #ORM\DiscriminatorColumn(name="discr", type="string")
*/
class User extends AbstractEntity implements UserInterface, ProviderInterface
{
// properties, constructor, getters/setters...
}
GedmoDeletedAtTrait.php
namespace Mvc\Traits;
use Gedmo\SoftDeleteable\Traits\SoftDeleteableEntity;
trait GedmoDeletedAtTrait
{
use SoftDeleteableEntity;
/**
* Note: overrides Annotation (column name) and type hint, else it's the same as the original
*
* #var \DateTime|null
* #Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\Column(name="deleted_at", type="datetime", nullable=true)
*/
protected $deletedAt;
}
doctrine module config for Customer module
'doctrine' => [
'driver' => [
__NAMESPACE__ . '_driver' => [
'class' => 'Doctrine\\ORM\\Mapping\\Driver\\AnnotationDriver',
'cache' => 'array',
'paths' => [
__DIR__ . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . '..' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'src'
. DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'Entity',
]
],
'orm_default' => [
'drivers' => [
__NAMESPACE__ . '\Entity' => __NAMESPACE__ . '_driver'
],
],
],
'eventmanager' => [
'orm_default' => [
'subscribers' => [
SoftDeleteableListener::class,
],
],
],
],
Related question: the docs also mention "filters". How to implement them and use them throughout a module with the setup above?

Answer 1

Found the answer. I was missing a piece of configuration, not (yet) sure as to how it relates to the Listener and the LifecycleCallbacks that need to be executed to soft-delete an Entity, but the complete configuration is as follows:
use Gedmo\SoftDeleteable\Filter\SoftDeleteableFilter;
use Gedmo\SoftDeleteable\SoftDeleteableListener;
[ ... ]
'doctrine' => [
'driver' => [
__NAMESPACE__ . '_driver' => [
'class' => 'Doctrine\\ORM\\Mapping\\Driver\\AnnotationDriver',
'cache' => 'array',
'paths' => [
__DIR__ . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . '..' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'src'
. DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'Entity',
]
],
'orm_default' => [
'drivers' => [
__NAMESPACE__ . '\Entity' => __NAMESPACE__ . '_driver'
],
],
],
'eventmanager' => [
'orm_default' => [
'subscribers' => [
SoftDeleteableListener::class,
],
],
],
// THIS IS THE PART THAT WAS MISSING
'configuration' => [
'orm_default' => [
'filters' => [
'soft-deletable' => SoftDeleteableFilter::class,
],
],
],
],
In the above snipped I've marked the missing piece with a comment. However, as that bit just sets a filter to use on an alias, I'm not sure how it relates to the configuration above, which defines a Listener.
If I figure it out later/in the future I might come back and update this answer. In the mean time, maybe someone else might place a comment with the info?