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replace org_user deactivation with removal of org_user role
Resolves #3587
Description
Problem
The issue was that banks could "deactivate" a user (which is essentially a soft delete of the whole User
record). However, if that user then went to a Partner
they would not be able to invite that user because that user would exist (new User cannot be created) but be soft deleted (existing User is treated like they didn't have permissions).
Solution
Roles got added in https://github.com/rubyforgood/human-essentials/pull/3117. Therefore, the logic around deactivation should address the role not the user.
However, there is a caveat. I attempted to implement logic around deactivating roles themselves in https://github.com/rubyforgood/human-essentials/pull/4392, https://github.com/rubyforgood/human-essentials/pull/4382. But the logic became very complex. We decided (https://github.com/rubyforgood/human-essentials/issues/3587#issuecomment-2138464940) to go for a more architerurally simple solution of removing the deactivation functionality and just deleting the roles.
Drawbacks
There are two main drawbacks with this approach.
Existing Data
What do we do with existing discarded users? Discarded == soft deleted. I can imagine a world where a user was discarded without that meaning to be a "deactivation".
My current idea is that any User that is discarded and only had the org_user
role was probably a deactivation and we can reactivate them and remove the org_user
role from them. But this requires some more information.
Loss of Granularity
Previously we had 3 states for org_user
s: active, not an org_user
and deactivated (meaning they were a user at one point but not any more).
Now there are only 2 states: user or not. This means we have a bit less information, we can no longer track if someone was once a user but not anymore. Does this matter? Probably not.
Type of change
- New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
How Has This Been Tested?
Request + System specs