Removing retour field doesnt remove redirects

[ghost]

I recently tried to remove a Retour redirect field i had on a section full of entries. Once i removed the field in the field layout editor for the section, i re-saved the section to update all existing entries.

However this didn't remove the dynamic redirects from Retour - looking in the retour section in the CP sidebar showed the dynamic redirects still in place (and the redirects were still in place on the front-end). I double checked to confirm that the field was no longer showing when editing an entry in that section.

The one thing i didnt try was deleting that field altogether to see if that worked in removing those dynamic redirects. In the end i completely uninstalled the plugin and reinstalled it, re-adding static rules that i wanted to keep (which was only a couple).

[SimonEast]

I'm not the plugin author, but I think this may be partly due to how Craft works. When you disable/remove a field from a section, it does not actually remove the data (you can actually use this to your advantage to create "hidden fields"). So there would need to be a way to remove the data from the entry. I'm not exactly sure of the best approach to that.

[khalwat]

The problem is that Retour doesn't really know when a field is removed from a layout. It could listen for an event to see when this happens, but it removing redirects when a field is removed could be a little dangerous.

Probably there should be a way to delete these redirects, though. I'll make this a feature request.