Symfony get connected user id from entity

Question

In a Symfony2.8/Doctrine2 application, I need to store in each row of my SQL tables the id of the user who created or updated the row (users can connect with Ldap).

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Answer 1

You can use a Doctrine entity listener/subscriber instead and to inject the security token and gets the current user logged:

// src/AppBundle/EventListener/EntityListener.php
namespace AppBundle\EventListener;

use Doctrine\ORM\Event\LifecycleEventArgs;
use AppBundle\Entity\GenericEntity;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authentication\Token\Storage\TokenStorageInterface;

class EntityListener
{
    private $tokenStorage;

    public function __construct(TokenStorageInterface $tokenStorage = null) 
    {
        $this->tokenStorage = $tokenStorage;
    }

    public function prePersist(LifecycleEventArgs $args)
    {
        $entity = $args->getEntity();

        // only act on some "GenericEntity" entity
        if (!$entity instanceof GenericEntity) {
            return;
        }

        if (null !== $currentUser = $this->getUser()) {
            $entity->setCreationId($currentUser->getId());
        } else {
            $entity->setCreationId(0);
        }
    }

    public function getUser()
    {
        if (!$this->tokenStorage) {
            throw new \LogicException('The SecurityBundle is not registered in your application.');
        }

        if (null === $token = $this->tokenStorage->getToken()) {
            return;
        }

        if (!is_object($user = $token->getUser())) {
            // e.g. anonymous authentication
            return;
        }

        return $user;
    }
}

Next register you listener:

# app/config/services.yml
services:
    my.listener:
        class: AppBundle\EventListener\EntityListener
        arguments: ['@security.token_storage']
        tags:
            - { name: doctrine.event_listener, event: prePersist }