Soft Deletion in Django

Giving your users the ability to delete objects from your database is a risky proposition — some types of objects are low risk, but others, no matter how much you warn them of the risks of deleting things, will lead to customer requests. You know the kind — “So, I deleted this thing, but I didn’t mean to and now I really need it back…can you recover it?” Of course, databases don’t work that way. When a thing is deleted, it’s deleted.

So, the dream: be able to easily define some objects to be soft-deleted and others to be hard-deleted so that your developers don’t have to remember as they…