feat: clear file references on schema delete

packages/nocodb/src/meta/meta.service.ts

@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ export class MetaService {
     target: string,
     data: any | any[],
     ids: string[],
+    condition?: { [key: string]: any },
   ): Promise<any> {
     if (Array.isArray(data) ? !data.length : !data) {
       return [];
@@ -253,8 +254,6 @@ export class MetaService {
           sql: '',
         });
       }
-
-      this.contextCondition(query, workspace_id, base_id, target);
     }
 
     const updateObj = {
@@ -262,7 +261,25 @@ export class MetaService {
       updated_at: at,
     };
 
-    query.whereIn('id', ids).update(updateObj);
+    if (!condition) {
+      query.whereIn('id', ids).update(updateObj);
+    } else {
+      if (![MetaTable.FILE_REFERENCES].includes(target as MetaTable)) {
+        NcError.metaError({
+          message: 'This table does not support conditional bulk update',
+          sql: '',
+        });
+      }
+
+      query.where(condition);
+
+      // Check if a condition is present in the query builder and throw an error if not.
+      this.checkConditionPresent(query, 'update');
+
+      query.update(updateObj);
+    }
+
+    this.contextCondition(query, workspace_id, base_id, target);
 
     return query;
   }

packages/nocodb/src/models/Column.ts

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import Sort from '~/models/Sort';
 import Filter from '~/models/Filter';
 import QrCodeColumn from '~/models/QrCodeColumn';
 import BarcodeColumn from '~/models/BarcodeColumn';
-import { GalleryView, KanbanView, LinksColumn } from '~/models';
+import { FileReference, GalleryView, KanbanView, LinksColumn } from '~/models';
 import { extractProps } from '~/helpers/extractProps';
 import { NcError } from '~/helpers/catchError';
 import addFormulaErrorIfMissingColumn from '~/helpers/addFormulaErrorIfMissingColumn';
@@ -984,6 +984,9 @@ export default class Column<T = any> implements ColumnType {
       await Column.delete(context, ltarColumn.fk_column_id, ncMeta);
     }
 
+    // Delete FileReference
+    await FileReference.bulkDelete(context, { fk_column_id: col.id }, ncMeta);
+
     // Columns
     await ncMeta.metaDelete(
       context.workspace_id,

packages/nocodb/src/models/FileReference.ts

@@ -121,6 +121,26 @@ export default class FileReference {
     );
   }
 
+  public static async bulkDelete(
+    context: NcContext,
+    condition: {
+      workspace_id?: string;
+      base_id?: string;
+      fk_model_id?: string;
+      fk_column_id?: string;
+    },
+    ncMeta = Noco.ncMeta,
+  ) {
+    await ncMeta.bulkMetaUpdate(
+      context.workspace_id,
+      context.base_id,
+      MetaTable.FILE_REFERENCES,
+      { deleted: true },
+      null,
+      condition,
+    );
+  }
+
   public static async hardDelete(
     context: NcContext,
     fileReferenceId: string,