Grails validate delete() Operation?

Question

When deleting an instance with Grails I can perform

def user = User.get(1)
user.delete(flush: true)

For an instance I can validate if a save operation will succeed:

user.validate()

Is it possible to validate if a delete() will be successful before doing delete?

Answer 1

I don't think there's a way to 'dry run' a delete in Grails. You could do something like this though:

try{
   user.delete(failOnError:true)
} 
catch(e) {
   //it didn't work, do something about it here
}