How do I get the entity that represents the current user in Symfony2

Question

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- gt get  security context  - gt getToken  - gt 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

User · Answer

The thread is a bit old but i think this could probably save someone's time ...

I ran into the same problem as the original question, that the type is showed as Symfony\Component\Security\Core\User\User

It eventually turned out that i was logged in using an in memory user

my security.yml looks something like this

security:
    providers:
        chain_provider:
            chain:
                providers: [in_memory, fos_userbundle]
        fos_userbundle:
            id: fos_user.user_manager
        in_memory:
            memory:
                users:
                    user:  { password: userpass, roles: [ 'ROLE_USER' ] }
                    admin: { password: adminpass, roles: [ 'ROLE_ADMIN', 'ROLE_SONATA_ADMIN' ] }

the in_memory user type is always Symfony\Component\Security\Core\User\User if you want to use your own entity, log in using that provider's user.

Thanks, hj

User · Answer

Symfony 4   2019  Approach  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    lt  php  use Symfony Component Security Core Security   class SomeClass                   var Security             private  security       public function   construct Security  security                this- gt security    security             public function privatePage     Response                user    this- gt security- gt getUser       null or UserInterface  if logged in                do whatever you want with  user             Symfony 2- Approach  As  ktolis says  you first have to configure your  app config security yml   Then with   user    this- gt get  security token storage  - gt getToken  - gt getUser     user- gt 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

User · Answer

Well  first you need to request the username of the user from the session in your controller action like this    username  this- gt get  security context  - gt getToken  - gt getUser  - gt getUserName      then do a query to the db and get your object with regular dql like   em    this- gt get  doctrine orm entity manager         SELECT u FROM Acme AuctionBundle Entity User u where u username    username   q  em- gt createQuery  query    user  q- gt getResult      the  user should now hold the user with this username   you could also use other fields of course      but you will have to first configure your  app config security yml configuration to use the appropriate field for your security provider like so   security   provider    example     entity   class Acme AuctionBundle Entity User  property  username    hope this helps

User · Answer

In symfony    3 2  documentation states that      An alternative way to get the current user in a controller is to   type-hint the controller argument with UserInterface  and default it   to null if being logged-in is optional    use Symfony Component Security Core User UserInterface UserInterface   public function indexAction UserInterface  user   null            user is null when not logged-in or anon          This is only recommended for experienced developers who don t extend   from the Symfony base controller and don t use the ControllerTrait   either  Otherwise  it s recommended to keep using the getUser     shortcut    Blog post about it

User · Answer

this- gt container- gt get  security token storage  - gt getToken  - gt getUser

User · Answer

Best practice  According to the documentation since Symfony 2 1 simply use this shortcut     user    this- gt getUser      The above is still working on Symfony 3 2 and is a shortcut for this     user    this- gt get  security token storage  - gt getToken  - gt getUser         The security token storage service was introduced in Symfony 2 6  Prior to Symfony 2 6  you had to use the getToken   method of the security context service    Example   And if you want directly the username     username    this- gt getUser  - gt getUsername      If wrong user class type  The user will be an object and the class of that object will depend on your user provider

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