Question

I’m hoping to do a very common task which is to never delete items that I store, but instead just mark them with a deleted flag. However, for almost every request I will now have to specify deleted:false. Is there a way to have a “default” filter on which you can add? Such that I can construct a live_items filter and do queries on top of that?

This was just one guess at a potential answer. In general, I’d just like to have deleted=False be the default search.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I went ahead and just made a python function that combines the specified query:

def find_items(filt, single=False, live=True):
  if live:
    live = {'deleted': False}
    filt = dict(filt.items() + live.items())
  if single:
    return db.Item.find_one(filt)
  else:
    return db.Item.find(filt)