How I can get the current user into my entity classes?

Question

I am developing my first Symfony 4 application and I migrating from Symfony 2+ and symfony 3+.

Right now I am developing a back-end and all of my entity classes have a <

Answer 1

You probably do not want to reinvent the wheel. There is the Blameable Doctrine Extension that already does that. You can install it with :

composer require antishov/doctrine-extensions-bundle

As there is already a recipe to configure it. Then you can activate the extension and then use it with something like :

Specific documentation for the Blameable extension can be found here

use Gedmo\Mapping\Annotation as Gedmo;

class Post {

  /**
  * @var User $createdBy
  *
  * @Gedmo\Blameable(on="create")
  * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="App\Entity\User")
  */
  private $createdBy;

}