The last basic task involved in working with nested sets is the removal of nodes. The course of action you take when deleting a node depends on the node's position in the hierarchy; deleting leaf nodes is easier than deleting nodes with children because we have to handle the orphaned nodes.
When deleting a leaf node, the process if just the opposite of adding a new node, we delete the node and its width from every node to its right:
LOCK TABLE nested_category WRITE; SELECT @myLeft := lft, @myRight := rgt, @myWidth := rgt - lft + 1 FROM nested_category WHERE name = 'GAME CONSOLES'; DELETE FROM nested_category WHERE lft BETWEEN @myLeft AND @myRight; UPDATE nested_category SET rgt = rgt - @myWidth WHERE rgt > @myRight; UPDATE nested_category SET lft = lft - @myWidth WHERE lft > @myRight; UNLOCK TABLES;And once again, we execute our indented tree query to confirm that our node has been deleted without corrupting the hierarchy:
SELECT CONCAT( REPEAT( ' ', (COUNT(parent.name) - 1) ), node.name) AS name FROM nested_category AS node, nested_category AS parent WHERE node.lft BETWEEN parent.lft AND parent.rgt GROUP BY node.name ORDER BY node.lft; +-----------------------+ | name | +-----------------------+ | ELECTRONICS | | TELEVISIONS | | TUBE | | LCD | | PLASMA | | PORTABLE ELECTRONICS | | MP3 PLAYERS | | FLASH | | CD PLAYERS | | 2 WAY RADIOS | | FRS | +-----------------------+This approach works equally well to delete a node and all its children:
LOCK TABLE nested_category WRITE; SELECT @myLeft := lft, @myRight := rgt, @myWidth := rgt - lft + 1 FROM nested_category WHERE name = 'MP3 PLAYERS'; DELETE FROM nested_category WHERE lft BETWEEN @myLeft AND @myRight; UPDATE nested_category SET rgt = rgt - @myWidth WHERE rgt > @myRight; UPDATE nested_category SET lft = lft - @myWidth WHERE lft > @myRight; UNLOCK TABLES;And once again, we query to see that we have successfully deleted an entire sub-tree:
SELECT CONCAT( REPEAT( ' ', (COUNT(parent.name) - 1) ), node.name) AS name FROM nested_category AS node, nested_category AS parent WHERE node.lft BETWEEN parent.lft AND parent.rgt GROUP BY node.name ORDER BY node.lft; +-----------------------+ | name | +-----------------------+ | ELECTRONICS | | TELEVISIONS | | TUBE | | LCD | | PLASMA | | PORTABLE ELECTRONICS | | CD PLAYERS | | 2 WAY RADIOS | | FRS | +-----------------------+The other scenario we have to deal with is the deletion of a parent node but not the children. In some cases you may wish to just change the name to a placeholder until a replacement is presented, such as when a supervisor is fired. In other cases, the child nodes should all be moved up to the level of the deleted parent:
LOCK TABLE nested_category WRITE; SELECT @myLeft := lft, @myRight := rgt, @myWidth := rgt - lft + 1 FROM nested_category WHERE name = 'PORTABLE ELECTRONICS'; DELETE FROM nested_category WHERE lft = @myLeft; UPDATE nested_category SET rgt = rgt - 1, lft = lft - 1 WHERE lft BETWEEN @myLeft AND @myRight; UPDATE nested_category SET rgt = rgt - 2 WHERE rgt > @myRight; UPDATE nested_category SET lft = lft - 2 WHERE lft > @myRight; UNLOCK TABLES;In this case we subtract two from all elements to the right of the node (since without children it would have a width of two), and one from the nodes that are its children (to close the gap created by the loss of the parent's left value). Once again, we can confirm our elements have been promoted:
SELECT CONCAT( REPEAT( ' ', (COUNT(parent.name) - 1) ), node.name) AS name FROM nested_category AS node, nested_category AS parent WHERE node.lft BETWEEN parent.lft AND parent.rgt GROUP BY node.name ORDER BY node.lft; +---------------+ | name | +---------------+ | ELECTRONICS | | TELEVISIONS | | TUBE | | LCD | | PLASMA | | CD PLAYERS | | 2 WAY RADIOS | | FRS | +---------------+Other scenarios when deleting nodes would include promoting one of the children to the parent position and moving the child nodes under a sibling of the parent node, but for the sake of space these scenarios will not be covered in this article.
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