Doctrine cascade:[delete] does not call delete() method of related objects

I am using Doctrine 1.2 in my project. The schema.yml file contains:

Campaign:
  tableName: campaign
  actAs:
    Timestampable:
      created:
        name: created_datetime
        type: timestamp
        format: Y-m-d H:i:s
      updated:
        disabled: true
  columns:
    id:
      type: integer(9)
      fixed: false
      unsigned: false
      primary: true
      autoincrement: true
   ...
  relations:
    CampaignImages:
      local: id
      foreign: campaign_id
      type: many
      cascade: [delete]
   ...
CampaignImages:
  tableName: campaign_images
  columns:
    id:
      type: integer(9)
      fixed: false
      unsigned: false
      primary: true
      autoincrement: true
    campaign_id:
      type: integer(9)
      fixed: false
      unsigned: false
      primary: false
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      autoincrement: false
    ...

I have defined CampaignImages::delete() method and put some debugging code there, but it does not get executed when Campaign::delete() is called.

Isn't cascade:[delete] meant precisly for this reason? I don't want to use database level cascades, because image files associated with CampaignImage must be deleted when deleting record.

Cascade delete doesn't run delete() method. However, it guarantees that hooks are run.

If you need to implement any pre/post delete logic you shouldn't overwrite delete() method but rather use preDelete() or postDelete() hooks.

I have solved in another way

in Campaign class you put this

 public function setUp() {
        parent::setUp();

        // to delete cascaded items
        $CampaignRel = $this->_table->getRelation("CampaignImages");
        $CampaignRel->offsetSet('cascade', array('delete'));
    }

it did work for me that way

Aren't you looking for

 onDelete: CASCADE

It sounds more like the option you want.

http://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/orm/1.2/docs/manual/defining-models/en#relationships:foreign-key-constraints:integrity-actions