feat(deletion): Add soft-deletion with recovery and audit trail - #212
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Thanks for the PR and the idea.
There's a lot to unpack here:
- Unused code
- Unrelated changes
- Repetitive test code
This PR isn't ready in its current state, please clean it up and simplify.
- Configurable soft-delete with retention periods - Undelete recovery for accidentally deleted links - DeletedBy audit trail tracking who deleted links - Automatic schema migrations for old databases - /.deleted endpoint for link recovery - Version history: edits preserve prior versions instead of overwriting The soft-deletion pattern provides a foundation for scaling golink across multiple instances with active/passive or active/active deployments. Also fixes several correctness issues found in review (migration gaps, same-second edit collisions, duplicate active links after undelete, deleted names being claimable during their recovery window, and incorrect/slow version history lookups), and cleans up and speeds up the test suite. Signed-off-by: Arun Philip <dacodedbeat@gmail.com>
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Users can safely delete links with a configurable recovery window, and a DeletedBy audit trail tracks who deleted each link. Soft-deletion can also provides a foundation for scaling golink across multiple instances (read: running golink as a tailscale service).
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/.deletedendpoint-deleted-retention,-cleanup-interval