On delete cascade with doctrine2

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I’m trying to make a simple example in order to learn how to delete a row from a parent table and automatically delete the matching rows in the child table using Doctrine2.

Here are the two entities I’m using:

Child.php:

<?php

namespace Acme\CascadeBundle\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 * @ORM\Table(name="child")
 */
class Child {

    /**
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
     */
    private $id;
    /**
     * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Father", cascade={"remove"})
     *
     * @ORM\JoinColumns({
     *   @ORM\JoinColumn(name="father_id", referencedColumnName="id")
     * })
     *
     * @var father
     */
    private $father;
}

Father.php

<?php
namespace Acme\CascadeBundle\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 * @ORM\Table(name="father")
 */
class Father
{
    /**
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
     */
    private $id;
}

The tables are correctly created on the database, but the On Delete Cascade option it’s not created. What am I doing wrong?

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