Contributed by
Robin Chalas
in #19398 and
#19490.
FirewallConfig
class¶A long-standing demand of Symfony developers was to have a class representing
the current firewall configuration. In Symfony 3.2, we introduced a new
Symfony\Bundle\SecurityBundle\Security\FirewallConfig
class which provides
information such as its name, provider, context, entry point, access denied URL,
etc.
The firewall configuration can also be accessed through the
getFirewallConfig(Request $request)
method of the FirewallMap
and
through the getConfig()
method of the FirewallContext
.
This new class is useful to get the firewall configuration inside an authentication listener and even from the Symfony profiler, as explained below.
In Symfony 3.2, thanks to this new firewall config class, the debug toolbar
displays the name of the current firewall. This is useful to quickly spot
config errors in your security.yml
file:
Moreover, the Symfony Profiler now displays the full firewall configuration in the security panel:
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