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Added an example about how to get the impersonating user object #5015

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Added an example about how to get the impersonating user object
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Adding a break statement to improve the sample code
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In some cases you may need to get the object that represents the impersonating
user rather than the impersonated user. Use the following snippet to iterate
over user's roles until you get the ``SwitchUserRole`` related to the
impersonating user::

use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Role\SwitchUserRole;

$securityContext = $this->get('security.context');
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this needs to be 'security.authorization_checker' since 'security.context' is deprecated

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You are right ... but this doc is aimed for Symfony 2.3 and the security.context service was added in 2.6. I guess mergers should take care of this.

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yes

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see #5015 (comment)


if ($securityContext->isGranted('ROLE_PREVIOUS_ADMIN')) {
foreach ($securityContext->getToken()->getRoles() as $role) {
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this should use the new service as well

if ($role instanceof SwitchUserRole) {
$impersonatingUser = $role->getSource()->getUser();
}
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after this, you can add a break, can't you?

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Indeed. Much better with the break. Done in e7c9605.

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}

Of course, this feature needs to be made available to a small group of users.
By default, access is restricted to users having the ``ROLE_ALLOWED_TO_SWITCH``
role. The name of this role can be modified via the ``role`` setting. For
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