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icicleking
icicleking

Reputation: 1077

Symfony Custom User Provider

I'm reading up on Symfony's way of managing users through the custom User Provider: https://symfony.com/doc/current/security/custom_provider.html

When a user submits a username and password, the authentication layer asks the configured user provider to return a user object for a given username. Symfony then checks whether the password of this user is correct and generates a security token

This works great when we're connecting to a database with user/password locally, but I want to authenticate against another service. Basically, I want to use Symfony as a client that consumes the user login service. This is how I would do it, except I don't have access to the password here.

public function loadUserByUsername($username)
{
    $client = new Client(['base_uri' => $uri]);
    $user_response = $client->get('api/v1/getTokens/', ['auth' => [$username, <passord>]);
    // $user_response 
}

And this is much different from what Symfony expects, which is to receive a user object and then issue it's own Tokens if the user/password match.

Should I forgo the whole Custom Provider interface for my own system?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1323

Answers (1)

DonCallisto
DonCallisto

Reputation: 29932

You need an AuthenticationProvider to use in tandem with UserProvider you wrote.

Check also Guard Authentication

Upvotes: 0

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