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Deleting clients

The final part of our CRUD operations is deleting an existing client. Let’s trigger this via a new button on EditClientView. We’ll begin by adding the slot that will be called when the button is pressed to CommandController:

void CommandController::onEditClientDeleteExecuted()
{
    qDebug() << "You executed the Delete command!";

    implementation->databaseController->deleteRow(implementation->selectedClient->key(), implementation->selectedClient->id());
    implementation->selectedClient = nullptr;

    qDebug() << "Client deleted.";

    implementation->clientSearch->search();
}

This follows the same pattern as the other slots, except this time we also clear the selectedClient property as although the client instance still exists in application ...