get the current user in the controller symfony2

Question

I want to get the user currently connected to a session. I mean since we can get the role with this :

$this->get('security.context')->isGranted('ROLE_ADMIN')

could we get the user??

Answer 1

you can get the current user like this

$securityContext = $this->get('security.context');
$user = $securityContext->getToken()->getUser();