Soft Delete of AWX Objects

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Feature type

Enhancement to Existing Feature

Feature Summary

I use API to gather metrics on evolution of AWX objects (job templates, hosts, users, etc.)
When I delete an object I can't request history and have good metrics (for example, evolution of created job templates weeks over weeks on a 6 month period).

Select the relevant components

• UI
• API
• Docs
• Collection
• CLI
• Other

Steps to reproduce

Add a job template
Run the job template
Delete job template

Current results

After adding job template, i can request it with api request
Running job is OK and i can requets with api it having the related job template's informations
After deleting the job template, i doesn't appear in api request
And requesting the job, make related job_template value to null.

Sugested feature result

After deleting an object, put delete timestamp and informations on user having performed the deletion.
Don't show soft deleted objects in UI
Soft deleted objects appears in API

Additional information

For database capacity I propose to make a scheduled system job that will hard delete the soft deleted objects (for exemple 180 days after soft delete, 180 is a parameter).