• This weekend, I updated the monday-shop system.
  The most significant challenges came from upgrading laravel-admin to the latest version. This backend framework is particularly valuable as it allows developers to focus on core backend logic.

• First Issue: Composer Dependency Errors
  Initial composer install failed due to locked mirror sources. Solved by switching to Alibaba Cloud Composer Mirror.

• Laravel-admin Upgrade Challenges
  

  

  
  Key functionality affected:
  • Soft Delete (下架)
  • Restore (上架)

• Version-Specific Problems:

  1. Soft-deleted items couldn’t be processed by actions (throwing “model not found” errors)
     

     

  2. Force delete functionality failed (delete action only performed soft delete)

Problem Solving Process

• Controller Analysis
  The controller’s destroy method contained force delete logic, but requests weren’t reaching it:
  

  

• Routing Investigation
  All actions routed through HandleController::handleAction:
  

  

• Model Retrieval Issue
  The critical line: $model = $action->retrieveModel($request);
  Default implementation used Model::findOrFail(), incompatible with soft-deleted items:
  

  

• Solution: Override retrieveModel in custom Action class to include soft-deleted records:
  

  

Force Delete Implementation

• Default Action Analysis
  DropdownActions contained basic delete action:
  

  

• Custom Force Delete Action
  Removed default delete, added force delete implementation:
  

  

  
  Core logic using Laravel’s force delete:
  

  

Final Outcome: Both soft delete management and force delete functionality now work as intended.