Symfony2 : login_check and annotation

Question

In my symfony project, I would like to use authentification. So I wrote this in my security.yml file

 firewalls:
        dev:
            pattern: ^/(_(profiler|wdt)|css|images|js)/
            security: false

        default:
            anonymous: ~

        login_firewall:
          pattern:    ^/login$
          anonymous:  ~

        secured_area:
            pattern:    ^/
            anonymous: ~
            form_login:
                login_path:  /login
                check_path:  /login_check
                post_only: true
                always_use_default_target_path: true
                default_target_path:      /
                use_referer:          false
                username_parameter:       username
                password_parameter:       password
                intention:            authenticate
            logout:
                path:  /logout
                target: /

Ok, now documentation says that I need to add in routing.yml this :

login:
    pattern:   /login
    defaults:  { _controller: AcmeSecurityBundle:Security:login }
login_check:
    pattern:   /login_check

But I am using annotation, so I don't use routing files. Instead I have this :


    /**
     * @Route("/login")
     * @Template()
     */
    public function loginAction()
    {
        $request = $this->getRequest();
        $session = $request->getSession();

        // get the login error if there is one
        if ($request->attributes->has(SecurityContext::AUTHENTICATION_ERROR)) {
          $error = $request->attributes->get(SecurityContext::AUTHENTICATION_ERROR);
        } else {
          $error = $session->get(SecurityContext::AUTHENTICATION_ERROR);
          $session->remove(SecurityContext::AUTHENTICATION_ERROR);
        }

        return array(
          // last username entered by the user
          'last_username' => $session->get(SecurityContext::LAST_USERNAME),
          'error'     => $error,
        );
    }

If I do nothing, I have an error in my login page :

 "Unable to generate a URL for the named route "login_check" as such route does not exist."

If I add an action in my controller with an empty response, there is... nothing.

What am I doing wrong ?

Jovan Perovic Jovan Perovic · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-24T12:28:00

login_check or whatever you specify is system defined route and not an action. That means that you can not/shall not/will not define it manually in controller. ;)

I myself use annotations to do routing but, one way or another, you will use routing.yml in order to import your controllers and thus annotated routes from within them.

So, go ahead, just define that route in your routing.yml and it should work.

Symfony2 : login_check and annotation

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