CakePHP counterCache associated table field won't update on delete() - cakephp

Question

I have the following tables: causes, users, transactions
Cause hasMany Transaction and User hasMany Transaction
Transaction belongsTo Cause and Transaction belongsTo User
Both my causes and users tables have transaction_count fields and my belongsTo has counterCache => true on both associations.
Both of my hasMany clauses have dependent => true and my foreignKeys are set up correctly in that if I delete a Cause, all of it's associated Transactions are deleted as well.
It is also working, in that when I create a Transaction, the transaction_count field in both my users and causes tables updates correctly. Here is the breakdown:
1.) Create a cause
2.) Create a transaction
RESULT: causes[ 15 ][ 'transaction_count' ] increases by 1 correctly
RESULT: users[ 1 ][ 'transaction_count' ] increases by 1 correctly
3.) Manually delete a transaction ( $transaction->delete( $id ) )
RESULT: causes[ 15 ][ 'transaction_count' ] decreases by 1 correctly
RESULT: users[ 1 ][ 'transaction_count' ] decreases by 1 correctly
4.) FAILURE:
If I create the Cause and Transaction and then delete the Cause using $this->Cause->delete( $id ), even though all of the transactions are deleted in the database (along with the Cause), the transaction_count in my users table is not updated to reflect the decrease.
I imagine this is because $this->Transaction->delete() is not getting called explicitly, but it is instead getting deleted due to its association with Cause?
Is there a workaround for this?

Answer 1

Tables
CREATE TABLE `causes` (
`id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`name` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`transaction_count` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0'
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
CREATE TABLE `transactions` (
`id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`cause_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`user_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`name` varchar(255) NOT NULL
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
CREATE TABLE `users` (
`id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`name` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`transaction_count` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0'
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
User.php
App::uses('AppModel', 'Model');
class User extends AppModel {
public $hasMany = array(
'Transaction' => array(
'dependent' => true
)
);
}
Cause.php
App::uses('AppModel', 'Model');
class Cause extends AppModel {
public $hasMany = array(
'Transaction' => array(
'dependent' => true
)
);
}
Transaction.php
App::uses('AppModel', 'Model');
class Transaction extends AppModel {
public $belongsTo = array(
'User' => array(
'counterCache' => true
),
'Cause' => array(
'counterCache' => true
)
);
}
Controller
$this->Cause->query('TRUNCATE TABLE users');
$user['User'] = array(
'name' => 'aaa'
);
$this->Cause->Transaction->User->create($user);
$this->Cause->Transaction->User->save(null, false);
$userId = $this->Cause->Transaction->User->getLastInsertID();
$this->Cause->query('TRUNCATE TABLE causes');
$cause['Cause'] = array(
'name' => 'aaa'
);
$this->Cause->create($cause);
$this->Cause->save(null, false);
$causeId = $this->Cause->getLastInsertID();
$this->Cause->query('TRUNCATE TABLE transactions');
$transaction['Transaction'] = array(
'name' => 'aaa',
'user_id' => $userId,
'cause_id' => $causeId
);
$this->Cause->Transaction->create($transaction);
$this->Cause->Transaction->save(null, false);
$this->Cause->Transaction->create($transaction);
$this->Cause->Transaction->save(null, false);
$transaction['Transaction'] = array(
'name' => 'aaa',
'user_id' => $userId,
'cause_id' => 99
);
$this->Cause->Transaction->create($transaction);
$this->Cause->Transaction->save(null, false);
$this->Cause->delete($causeId);
$cause = $this->Cause->find('first', array(
'conditions' => array(
'Cause.id' => $causeId
)
));
$transactions = $this->Cause->Transaction->find('all', array(
'conditions' => array(
'Transaction.cause_id' => $causeId
)
));
$user = $this->Cause->Transaction->User->find('first', array(
'conditions' => array(
'User.id' => $userId
)
));
pr($cause);
pr($transactions);
pr($user);
if (is_a($this->Cause, 'Cause')) {
echo 'Cause';
}
if (is_a($this->Cause->Transaction, 'Transaction')) {
echo 'Transaction';
}
if (is_a($this->Cause->Transaction->User, 'User')) {
echo 'User';
}
Result
Array
(
)
Array
(
)
Array
(
[User] => Array
(
[id] => 1
[name] => aaa
[transaction_count] => 1
)
)
CauseTransactionUser
It works ok.
Double check for typos in models and check if cake is using your models and not the ones that are created on the fly if some model is missing.