Laravel trashing observer

[valerio-bozzolan]

I've seen that Laravel has not the "trashing" event.

What people do instead to get that?

https://laravel.com/docs/13.x/broadcasting#model-broadcasting

Anyway - do you think a feature request would be interesting? or not?

[cookesan]

Use deleting for “about to delete/soft-delete” and check $model->isForceDeleting() if you need to distinguish hard deletes. Use trashed / softDeleted() for the after-soft-delete hook.

In SoftDeletes, forceDelete() fires forceDeleting first and sets the force-delete state. Normal soft deletes go through runSoftDelete() and then fire the trashed model event. The Eloquent docs list deleting, deleted, trashed, forceDeleting, forceDeleted, restoring, and restored, and model broadcasting already includes trashed.

A new trashing event would be a before-soft-delete-only hook, so it could be a reasonable feature request if you need to veto or prepare something specifically before soft delete. For most app code, deleting plus isForceDeleting() is the existing pattern.