Symfony 2 - Loading roles from database

Question

My roles are stored in the database and I am trying to load them dynamically upon login. What I\'m doing is querying for the roles and setting them on the user object in my user

Answer 1

The problem here stemmed from the fact that I thought I was implementing

Symfony\Component\Security\Core\User\EquatableInterface;

but wasn't (as you can see in the original question, I forgot to add it to my class definition). I'm leaving this here for people if they come across it. All you need is to implement this interface, and add the following method to your user entity.

public function isEqualTo(UserInterface $user) {
    if ($user instanceof User) {
    // Check that the roles are the same, in any order
        $isEqual = count($this->getRoles()) == count($user->getRoles());
        if ($isEqual) {
            foreach($this->getRoles() as $role) {
                $isEqual = $isEqual && in_array($role, $user->getRoles());
            }
        }
        return $isEqual;
    }

    return false;
}