[Dbix-class] "soft deletion"

[David Ihnen]

> I wrote a blog post on the specifics of my method. 
>  http://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/archives/274.  The only things that 
> are missing are a) configurability and b) a way to find deleted rows. 
>  The first is just a matter of me reading the source code of more 
> Components, the second seems harder as I can't seem to pull it off 
> with the information that people on IRC are giving me.  I'll email you 
> guys about the solution to that when I get it.
what if instead of

  $_[0]->{deletion_date} = \"IS NULL";

You did

$_[0]->{deletion_date} ||= \"IS NULL";

thus not overriding merely specifying, so when you DO want to also see 
deleted items,

->search({ deletion_date => \"deletion_date" });

David