How to synchronize a Doctrine 2 collection?

I had the same situation for linking books to authors. If I wanted to update the author list (via pivot aka linking table) I would just remove all author ids from the pivot table where book_id = 1, then add the new list of authors. This way you don't have to introduce complex logic to determine diffs.

Also, it's best if this is wrapped in a transaction.

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