Syncing a ManyManyList

Sometimes you want to update a ManyMany relation to have exact this set of foreign keys. Not just adding and deleting, but both - best in just one call. But ManyManyList itself doesn't come with this functionality out of the box. Really?

Traversing all parent classes of ManyManyList we can see it's a subclass of DataList, which comes with setByIDList(array $idList) which can do the job for us.

$this->MyManyManyRelation()->setByIDList([1,2,7])

will add all needed items and remove all items from the relation table that are not in the list of IDs.

As DataList doesn't know anything about $manymany_extra_fields it cannot handle them.

Thanks to marvanni for asking this topic on our slack SilverStripe community channel.

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