Symfony2, KnpLabs DoctrineBehaviors: How do I truly delete a softdeletable entity?

Question

Is there a way to override the softdeletable behaviour with KNPLabs DoctrineBehaviors from a controller?

In my action, I would like to be able to momentarily "disable" the softdeletable behaviour so I can truly remove my entity from the database instead of just setting the deletedAt field.

Answer 1

nifr kindly gave me an answer on Github: https://github.com/KnpLabs/DoctrineBehaviors/issues/294#issuecomment-190310921:

Quick 'n dirty:

$entityManager = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager('default');
$eventManager = $entityManager->getEventManager();

// remove the softdeletable subscriber
$subscriber = $this->get('knp.doctrine_behaviors.softdeletable_subscriber');
$eventManager->removeEventListener($subscriber->getSubscribedEvents(), $subscriber);

// remove entity while the subscriber is removed
$entityManager->remove($entity);
$entityManager->flush();

// add back the subscriber
$eventManager->addEventSubscriber($subscriber);

PROBLEM This triggers the error "you have requested a non-existent service", because the service is not public.

To resolve this issue, according to nifr, 2 possible solutions:

1) define your controller itself as a service and inject the subscriber-service explicitly
2) create a factory-service that would return the subscriber service and call that one in your controller