[Bug 1074374] [NEW] REST API: Problems with addresses and memberships after deleting a user.

[Florian Fuchs]

Public bug reported:

Hi Barry,

I ran into some trouble after deleting a user account via the rest API.
Apparently the user's address records were kept, which  lead to two
problems:

- Memberships cannot be retrieved via rest any more.
- The deleted user cannot be created again using any of their previous addresses.

Steps to reproduce:

1) Create a user through the REST API
2) Delete that user through the REST API

3) Repeat step 1) (possibly because a person wants to register again after leaving) 
=> 500 status code is returned through the REST -- ExistingAddressError is raised.

4) Access /3.0/addresses
=> Result still contains the email address used in 1). 

5) Access /3.0/members
=> 500 status code is returned

As a workaround, I tried to delete all the user's addresses through the
API, but doing that returned 405 (Method not allowed).

Wouldn't it be best to delete all address/membership records from the db
when a user record is deleted?

Cheers 
Florian

** Affects: mailman
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Barry Warsaw (barry)
         Status: New


** Tags: mailman3 rest-api

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