Add:Remove option for authors & show authors with 0 books on authors page #2124

server/controllers/AuthorController.js

@@ -167,6 +167,30 @@ class AuthorController {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * DELETE: /api/authors/:id
+   * Remove author from all books and delete
+   * 
+   * @param {import('express').Request} req 
+   * @param {import('express').Response} res 
+   */
+  async delete(req, res) {
+    Logger.info(`[AuthorController] Removing author "${req.author.name}"`)
+
+    await Database.authorModel.removeById(req.author.id)
+
+    if (req.author.imagePath) {
+      await CacheManager.purgeImageCache(req.author.id) // Purge cache
+    }
+
+    SocketAuthority.emitter('author_removed', req.author.toJSON())
+
+    // Update filter data
+    Database.removeAuthorFromFilterData(req.author.libraryId, req.author.id)
+
+    res.sendStatus(200)
+  }
+
   async match(req, res) {
     let authorData = null
     const region = req.body.region || 'us'

server/controllers/LibraryController.js

@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ class LibraryController {
         model: Database.bookModel,
         attributes: ['id', 'tags', 'explicit'],
         where: bookWhere,
-        required: true,
+        required: false,
         through: {
           attributes: []
         }

server/models/BookAuthor.js

@@ -47,10 +47,14 @@ class BookAuthor extends Model {
     book.belongsToMany(author, { through: BookAuthor })
     author.belongsToMany(book, { through: BookAuthor })
 
-    book.hasMany(BookAuthor)
+    book.hasMany(BookAuthor, {
+      onDelete: 'CASCADE'
+    })
     BookAuthor.belongsTo(book)
 
-    author.hasMany(BookAuthor)
+    author.hasMany(BookAuthor, {
+      onDelete: 'CASCADE'
+    })
     BookAuthor.belongsTo(author)
   }
 }

server/routers/ApiRouter.js

@@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ class ApiRouter {
     //
     this.router.get('/authors/:id', AuthorController.middleware.bind(this), AuthorController.findOne.bind(this))
     this.router.patch('/authors/:id', AuthorController.middleware.bind(this), AuthorController.update.bind(this))
+    this.router.delete('/authors/:id', AuthorController.middleware.bind(this), AuthorController.delete.bind(this))
     this.router.post('/authors/:id/match', AuthorController.middleware.bind(this), AuthorController.match.bind(this))
     this.router.get('/authors/:id/image', AuthorController.middleware.bind(this), AuthorController.getImage.bind(this))