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Asked: 2026-06-11T01:27:09+00:00

I searched everywhere but it seems impossible thing to do. I was able to

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I searched everywhere but it seems impossible thing to do.

I was able to catch SwitchEvent coming from SwitchEventListener and get both impersonator and target user objects (one being impersonated as) but I would really like, based on target user roles to redirect request to some other URL.

Example:

I have two restricted areas: “/basic” and “/elevated” where first one requires ROLE_BASIC and the other one ROLE_ELEVATED role. Now, if I am currently logged in as ROLE_ELEVATED user and want to switch to some ROLE_BASIC user using URL:

/basic/?_switch_user=some_basic_user

that would result in AccessDeniedException, and I’m forced to navigate first to:

/?_switch_user=some_basic_user.

Only after that I can navigate to /basic as token has been written to session.

Now, the question, as subject suggests: Is there any way to redirect user using SwitchEvent (or any other) after doing user switching?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ok, I finally got access to my dev computer and looked up the the solution to this problem.

    And, I got to say, it is not as clean as I wanted it to be but delivery date was critical and this was the only way to achieve it back then.

    So, what I basically did was to send AJAX (although, I set async to false) request to URL /?_switch_user=some_basic_user, wait for an answer and if it was successful I would navigate forward to /basic/?_switch_user=some_basic_user URL. I know, it’s quick and dirty, and is pretty much unreliable…

    Hope this helps….

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