Symfony2：暂时禁用softdelete

Question

I want to temporarily disable softdelete, so I can find deleted entities by ID and then really delete them in my unit tests (so to make sure I do not clog the database).

What I tried:

$this->em->getFilters()->disable('softdeletable');
$item = $repository->findOneById($id); //fetch the item which was soft-deleted
$this->em->remove($item);
$this->em->flush();

But that throws an error:

InvalidArgumentException : Filter 'softdeletable' is not enabled.

I also tried disable('soft-deletable') and disable('soft-deleteable') etc - nothing worked. But when I look at $this->em->getFilters(), the filter is THERE:

["enabledFilters"]=>
  array(1) {
    ["softdeletable"]=>
      string(48) "Gedmo\SoftDeleteable\Filter\SoftDeleteableFilter"
  }

Trying the code without the disable of course doesn't work either:

Doctrine\ORM\ORMInvalidArgumentException : EntityManager#remove() expects parameter 1 to be an entity object, NULL given.

What am I doing wrong? I know I can really delete something with setting deletedAt to new DateTime but how do I delete an item without fetching it first?

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Originally a comment....

Are you using this in a loop or something?
If so, the filter may already be disabled.

You could do a check for whether it is enabled before disabling using if like...

$this->em->getFilters()->isEnabled('softdeleteable'))...