interface UserInterface
Represents the interface that all user classes must implement.
This interface is useful because the authentication layer can deal with the object through its lifecycle, using the object to get the encoded password (for checking against a submitted password), assigning roles and so on.
Regardless of how your user are loaded or where they come from (a database, configuration, web service, etc), you will have a class that implements this interface. Objects that implement this interface are created and loaded by different objects that implement UserProviderInterface
Methods
| (Role|string)[] | getRoles() Returns the roles granted to the user. | |
| string | getPassword() Returns the password used to authenticate the user. | |
| string|null | getSalt() Returns the salt that was originally used to encode the password. | |
| string | getUsername() Returns the username used to authenticate the user. | |
| eraseCredentials() Removes sensitive data from the user. |
Details
(Role|string)[] getRoles()
Returns the roles granted to the user.
public function getRoles()
{
return array('ROLE_USER');
}
Alternatively, the roles might be stored on a roles property, and populated in any number of different ways when the user object is created.
string getPassword()
Returns the password used to authenticate the user.
This should be the encoded password. On authentication, a plain-text password will be salted, encoded, and then compared to this value.
string|null getSalt()
Returns the salt that was originally used to encode the password.
This can return null if the password was not encoded using a salt.
string getUsername()
Returns the username used to authenticate the user.
eraseCredentials()
Removes sensitive data from the user.
This is important if, at any given point, sensitive information like the plain-text password is stored on this object.
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