Symfony2 API
Interface

Symfony\Component\Security\Core\User\UserProviderInterface

interface UserProviderInterface

Represents a class that loads UserInterface objects from some source for the authentication system.

In a typical authentication configuration, a username (i.e. some unique
user identifier) credential enters the system (via form login, or any
method). The user provider that is configured with that authentication
method is asked to load the UserInterface object for the given username
(via loadUserByUsername) so that the rest of the process can continue.

Internally, a user provider can load users from any source (databases,
configuration, web service). This is totally independent of how the authentication
information is submitted or what the UserInterface object looks like.

Methods

UserInterface loadUserByUsername(string $username)

Loads the user for the given username.

UserInterface refreshUser(UserInterface $user)

Refreshes the user for the account interface.

Boolean supportsClass(string $class)

Whether this provider supports the given user class

Details

at line 51
public UserInterface loadUserByUsername(string $username)

Loads the user for the given username.

This method must throw UsernameNotFoundException if the user is not
found.

Parameters

string $username The username

Return Value

UserInterface

Exceptions

UsernameNotFoundException if the user is not found

See also

UsernameNotFoundException

at line 66
public UserInterface refreshUser(UserInterface $user)

Refreshes the user for the account interface.

It is up to the implementation to decide if the user data should be
totally reloaded (e.g. from the database), or if the UserInterface
object can just be merged into some internal array of users / identity
map.

Parameters

UserInterface $user

Return Value

UserInterface

Exceptions

UnsupportedUserException if the account is not supported

at line 75
public Boolean supportsClass(string $class)

Whether this provider supports the given user class

Parameters

string $class

Return Value

Boolean