Soft delete has no effect on relations

[ChrisHelmsC]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what this is for. Lets say an event has a many to many relationship with users. This relation is "attendingUsers".

If I get a user through that relation and then detach it, I see deleted_at is populated in the pivot table. But the issue is when you run that relation again, you still get that user.

$event->attendingUsers->count();
=> 20
>>> $event->attendingUsers->first()->detach();
=> 1
>>> $event->attendingUsers->count();
=> 20

Seem like it would be considerably more useful if the relations would prevent associates with soft deleted relations. Am I missing something?

[soulcodex]

You need add on your relationship the condition to not get the nulled entries:

return $this->belongsToMany(Model::class)->whereNull('relation.deleted_at')->using(PivotTable::class)