I am using the Symfony security setup. Everything works fine, but I don't know how to do one important thing:
In twig, I can reach the current user's info by doing:
Welcome, {{ app.user.username }}
or similar
How do I access this same information in the Controller? Specifically, I want to get the current user entity so I can store it relationally in another entity (one-to-one mapping).
I was really hoping it'd be
$this->get('security.context')->getToken()->getUser()
but that doesn't work. It gives me a class of type
Symfony\Component\Security\Core\User\User
and I want one of type
Acme\AuctionBundle\Entity\User
which is my entity....
In symfony 4 (probably 3.3 also, but only real-tested in 4) you can inject the Security
service via auto-wiring in the controller like this:
<?php
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Security;
class SomeClass
{
/**
* @var Security
*/
private $security;
public function __construct(Security $security)
{
$this->security = $security;
}
public function privatePage() : Response
{
$user = $this->security->getUser(); // null or UserInterface, if logged in
// ... do whatever you want with $user
}
}
As @ktolis says, you first have to configure your /app/config/security.yml
.
Then with
$user = $this->get('security.token_storage')->getToken()->getUser();
$user->getUsername();
should be enougth!
$user
is your User Object! You don't need to query it again.
Find out the way to set up your providers in security.yml
from Sf2 Documentation and try again.
Best luck!