Question

What is the sfUser equivalent in Symfony 2?

sfUser allowed getting user session attributes using getAttribute() method.

Is Symfony\Component\Security\Core\User\User its equivalent? But it doesn’t have getAttribute() method in it.

Answer 1

To get session attributes, get the session service from the container. This example is in a controller, where the session is available via a helper method:

public function fooAction()
{
    $session = $this->getRequest()->getSession();

    // Setting
    $session->set("foo", "bar");

    // Retrieving
    $foo = $session->get("foo");
}

See the documentation for details. You can also retrieve the session explicitly from the container should you need it, via $container->get("session");

If you need the User object, you can get it via:

public function fooAction()
{
    // Get user from security token (assumes logged in/token present)
    $user = $this->get("security.context")->getToken()->getUser();
}

Again, see the documentation for further details.