Delete an account and dispose of its content in one transaction
Resolved the conflict with #1678 the way that PR's merge note predicted:
the erasure stamp goes inside the new transaction, so a deletion that
rolls back cannot leave a live account carrying a date on which it would
be erased.
An account deleted by an administrator was soft-deleted with erase_after
null, so projectsend:purge-erasures — which filters on
whereNotNull('erase_after') — never reached it, and the unique index on
users.email kept the address reserved forever. Anyone re-creating the
account got "The email has already been taken", naming a conflict nothing
on any screen could show or clear (#1648).
Both halves of the issue's option 3:
Every deletion path now schedules the erasure. The stamp lives in
ErasureSchedule — self-deletion switched to it, and StaffAccounts::delete
(shared by the web screen and the API) and both client controllers call
it right before delete(). Same grace period, same purge, whoever deleted
the account. Deliberately no backfill for rows deleted before this
change: stamping them during an update would start a countdown to data
erasure that nobody chose at deletion time; the message below covers
them instead.
The staff creation paths swap unique:users,email for AvailableEmailRule,
which refuses exactly the same things but can explain the one refusal
the stock message can't: an address held by a deleted account now names
the date it becomes available, and one deleted before scheduling existed
points at projectsend:erase-account. A living account keeps the stock
message, and public registration keeps the stock rule — telling an
anonymous visitor the address belongs to a deleted account would confirm
it had an account here.
Deleting a staff or client account is two writes: soft-delete the account,
then cascade or reassign the files and folders it owns. All four destroy()
paths (Users + Clients, web + API) ran them one after the other with nothing
tying them together.
If the second write throws, the account is already gone but its content is
not handled. The concrete way in is the reassign branch: validate() checks
reassign_to_id with exists(active), but apply() re-resolves it with
findOrFail() a moment later (AccountContentDeletion:108), so a target
deactivated or deleted in between throws — leaving a soft-deleted account
whose files still point at it, and a UserDeleted log for a deletion that did
not finish.
Wrap the delete()+apply() pair in a single DB::transaction() in each of the
four destroy() methods. validate() and the authorization guards stay outside
it: they are read-only and must be able to reject before anything is written.
cascadeDelete()/reassignTo() already open their own transaction, which nests
as a savepoint under this one, so the account soft-delete, its activity log,
and the content work now commit or roll back together.
Tests: a DeletedAccountContent double that reports content to handle and then
throws while handling it (tests/Helpers.php) drives one test per destroy()
endpoint asserting the account survives the failure and no UserDeleted entry
is written; each goes red against the un-wrapped controller.
Four create flows redirected to the new record's edit page on success,
but store is gated by create_* while the edit page is gated by edit_*,
and PermissionChecker has no create-implies-edit rule. A role holding
create_* without edit_* would create the record -- write, activity log
and notifications all run -- and then meet a 403 on the success
redirect, with no way to tell the action worked and every reason to
submit a duplicate. Categories is reachable with plain UI clicks, since
the sidebar shows it from create_categories alone.
Keep landing on the edit page for anyone who may edit, and divert only
those who can't -- to the create form, which shares store's own gate
and is therefore reachable by exactly whoever just created the record;
the success toast shows there. The index would not do: Clients/Groups
lists are gated by manage_*, which store itself does not require.
Implying edit_* from create_* would not do either -- edit has no
own/others split here, so it would silently hand a deliberately narrow
create-only role edit (two-factor reset included) on every existing
record.
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