Authentication token always null in kernel.request event in Symfony 2? - events

Question

I'm tring to write a basic listener for kernel.request event in Symfony 2. Service definition is pretty simple and annotations come from JMSDiExtraBundle.
The problems is that $context->getToken() is always null even the user is fully authenticated:
/**
* #Service("request.set_messages_count_listener")
*
*/
class RequestListener
{
/**
* #var \Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface
*/
private $container;
/**
* #InjectParams({"container" = #Inject("service_container")})
*
*/
public function __construct(ContainerInterface $container)
{
$this->container = $container;
}
/**
* #Observe("kernel.request", priority = 255)
*/
public function onKernelRequest(GetResponseEvent $event)
{
$context = $this->container->get('security.context');
var_dump($context->getToken()); die();
}
}
I think my security setup is working fine. What could be the problem then?
secured_area:
pattern: ^/app/
switch_user: true
form_login:
check_path: /app/login_check
login_path: /app/login
default_target_path: /app/dashboard
always_use_default_target_path: true
logout:
path: /demo/secured/logout # TODO
target: /demo/ # TODO
access_control:
- { path: ^/app/login, roles: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }
- { path: ^/app/users, roles: ROLE_MNG_USERS }
- { path: ^/app/messages, roles: ROLE_MNG_USERS }
- { path: ^/app/roles, roles: ROLE_MNG_PACKAGES_FEATURES }
- { path: ^/app/packages, roles: ROLE_MNG_PACKAGES_FEATURES }
- { path: ^/app/, roles: ROLE_USER }

Answer 1

With priority = 255, your listener is called BEFORE the security firewall (priority = 8, look here).
Try to change your priority.