I use ApiPlatform and want to change the delete request behavior for my entities. In every entity, I have a status property – when a delete request is called, it should set status to 0 instead of removing the record from the database.

I have a solution for this (a custom controller), but I have to create a new controller for each entity. Is it possible to create one controller and reuse it?

My plan was:

• Create an interface, so status property is required

interface SoftDeletableInterface
{
    public function setStatus(int $status): static;
}

• Implement this interface for entities where soft delete should be applied
• Move the delete operation to SoftDeleteController

#[ApiResource(
    operations: [
        new Delete(
            controller: ChannelSoftDeleteController::class
        ),
    ]
)]

• Write a universal controller

public function __invoke(string $entityClassName, $id): Response
{
    $entityClass = 'App\Entity\' . ucfirst($entityClassName);

    if (!class_exists($entityClass) || !is_subclass_of($entityClass, SoftDeletableInterface::class))    
    {
        return new Response(null, Response::HTTP_METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED);
    }

    $repository = $this->entityManager->getRepository($entityClass);
    $entity = $repository->find($id);

    if (!$entity) 
    {
        return new Response(null, Response::HTTP_NOT_FOUND);
    }

    $entity->setStatus(0);

    $this->entityManager->persist($entity);
    $this->entityManager->flush();

    return new Response(null, Response::HTTP_NO_CONTENT);
}

But it generates error:

Could not resolve argument $entityClassName of “AppControllerSoftDeleteController::__invoke()”, maybe you forgot to register the controller as a service or missed tagging it with the “controller.service_arguments”?

When the __invoke argument is specific class (Channel in my case) everything works.
I also tried passing the argument without type declaration to __invoke:

public function __invoke($entity)

but it’s generate same error