Accessing the currently logged in user object

[jayrulez]

How can I get access to the currently logged in user object?

A call to $this->getUser(); in an action returns null.

$this->get('security.token_storage')->getToken()->getUser(); only returns the user name.

The code is here: https://github.com/jayrulez/sfapp/blob/9a767712acc747ff34d9a6d6ca35484ebf28af60/src/AppBundle/Controller/UserController.php

[jayrulez]

I came with a way to get the user object.

I created a service for getting the user based on the username returned from the token getUser()

see method getUser()
https://github.com/jayrulez/sfapp/blob/31a5865d378dd2565fffbd486bff4b586ede47a2/src/AppBundle/Helper/UserHelper.php

However, it all fal s down.

My users immediately lose access to their tokens on the next request after invoking an api call that updates their username.

see setUsernameAction: https://github.com/jayrulez/sfapp/blob/31a5865d378dd2565fffbd486bff4b586ede47a2/src/AppBundle/Controller/UserController.php

This is because the relationships in authbucket are username based instead of id based.

Typically users may change usernames but never their ids.

I think it would be better to make authbucket relationships id based.

[jayrulez]

I added this workaround to my project:

jayrulez/sfapp@7cdd214

However, I do not think this is a very clean solution