Check password and create user manually with FOSUserBundle

Question

I'm using FOSUserBundle in my application. I would like to do two things via HTTP services:

1. Check password. The service could look like this (the password wouldn't be encrypted):

   public function checkPasswordValidity($userId, $password) {
       $user = $this->getDoctrine()
           ->getRepository('MyCompany\UserBundle\Entity\User')
           ->find($userId);
   
       if (specialFunction($user , $password))
           echo 'Valid Password';
       else
           echo 'Invalid Password';
   }
   

2. Create a new user via another HTTP service. The parameters would be the username and the password.

Answer 1

1. Check password:

   $encoder_service = $this->get('security.encoder_factory');
   $encoder = $encoder_service->getEncoder($user);
   $encoded_pass = $encoder->encodePassword($password, $user->getSalt());
   
   //then compare    $user->getPassword() and $encoded_pass
   

2. Create a new user:

   $userManager = $this->get('fos_user.user_manager');
   $user = $userManager->createUser();
   $user->setUsername($login);
   $user->setPlainPassword($pass);
   ...
   $userManager->updateUser($user);