Symfony3 - How to persist an object with its collections?

Question

I have an object \"person\" with several collections (\"documents\", \"contacts\", \"etc\"). I would like to save \"person\" and automatically the collection too. This is my con

Answer 1

Use mappedBy in owning side

/**
 * @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="PersonaContacto", mappedBy="xxx", cascade={"persist"},orphanRemoval=true)
 */

Use inversedBy in inverse side

inversedBy="xxx"

More details Bidirectional Associations

Answer 2

Follow the doctrine documentation, add a mappedBy prop in your Persona OneToMany annotation and add the ManyToOne in PersonaContacto (http://docs.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-orm/en/latest/reference/association-mapping.html#one-to-many-bidirectional)

Then in Persona (may be useless, try it):

public function addContacto(PersonaContacto $persona_contacto) {
    $this->contactos->add($persona_contacto);
    $persona_contacto->setPersona($this);
}