TLDR: The cascade={"remove"}
is like a "software" onDelete="CASCADE"
, and will remove objects from the database only when an explicit call to $em->remove()
occurs. Thus, it could result in more than one object being deleted. orphanRemoval
can remove objects from the database even if there was no explicit call to ->remove()
.
I answered this question a few times to different people so I will try to sum things up in this Gist.
Let's take two entities A
and B
as an example. I will use a OneToOne relationship in this example but it works exactly the same with OneToMany relationships.
class A