V8-archive: Deleting item with o2m field error occur: This value should not be blank.

[eudora-fabia]

Steps to Reproduce

artists one-to-many with artworks

• artists fields:
  
  
  
  • o2m field, not required`
  
  
  • status with publish, draft, soft delete
  
  
• Add an artist item without the artworks
• Update artists o2m field as required
• Try to delete the artist created previously

Expected Behavior

Error: artworks: This value should not be blank.

Actual Behavior

It should delete the item successfully.

Other Context & Screenshots

Screenrecording

Technical Details

• Device: Desktop
• OS: Win 10 10.0.18362.145
• Web Server: Apache/2.4.29
• PHP Version: PHP 7.1.30
• Database: 10.2.26
• Install Method: v2.5.0+ develop branch: https://github.com/directus/api/commit/db22ae5f5db3bb7572532edf33bbd8e84d764641
• Directus App: 7.10.0

[benhaynes]

Here is my understanding of what is happening:

1. You are trying to delete an item that has a required field that is empty
2. Since you have a status field, it is actually updating the item with a new status, not (hard) deleting it
3. The delete (actually an update) fails because the required field validation fails

I thought we already had a ticket for this, but I can't find it. So I added a new one: https://github.com/directus/api/issues/1237

My solution is to choose which status options enforce the required field validation with a new Status Mapping flag. Does this all seem correct to you?

Thank you so much for reporting this @JbalTero! I guess technically this isn't a bug, but a Feature request... but I agree that it certainly _seems_ like a bug. I'll close this one, and you can track the other ticket I created. Hopefully we can get this in soon!!

[eudora-fabia]

Thanks