[5.4] Soft deleted models should still existing

[JuanDMeGon]

Hi guys :)

When a model is soft deleted, its "exists" property should keep equals true. It was not completely removed and technically still existing.

This minor change wil allow deleting and immediately forceDelete.

Example:

function someExample(Model $instance)
{
   //Independently of it uses SoftDeletes we can call delete()
   $instance->delete();

    if (someConditionToForceDeleteNow) {
        $instance->forceDelete();
    }
    return $instance;
}

If the instance was force deleted or not, equally the deleted_at attributes has been set and can be returned in the response.

Without this change, the instance will never be force deleted, and if we do not call the delete() before we will never have the deteleted_at date updated/set.

[JuanDMeGon]

I think that I made a mess here. How can I resolve the conflicts from my side? I tried merging but did not work.

Sorry.

[morloderex]

Try rebasing.

[taylorotwell]

This would be a breaking change now since we didn't have time to get to this before 5.4 release. Sorry :/ ... it could be considered possibly for 5.5.

[JuanDMeGon]

Ok, I understand. Thanks for the excellent job. 5.4 has been a fantastic release as always.

I'll send it to the dev branch