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After Symfony calls ``createToken``, it will then call ``supportsToken`` on
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your class (and any other authentication listeners) to figure out who should
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handle it. This is just a way to allow several authentication mechanisms to
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be used for the same firewall (that way, you can for instance first try to
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authenticate the user via a certificate or an API key and fall back to a
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form login).
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After Symfony calls ``createToken()``, it will then call ``supportsToken()``
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on your class (and any other authentication listeners) to figure out who should
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handle the token. This is just a way to allow several authentication mechanisms
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to be used for the same firewall (that way, you can for instance first try
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to authenticate the user via a certificate or an API key and fall back to
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a form login).
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Mostly, you just need to make sure that this method returns ``true`` for a
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token that has been created by ``createToken``. Your logic should probably
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look exactly like this example.
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token that has been created by ``createToken()``. Your logic should probably
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look exactly like this example.

cookbook/security/api_key_authentication.rst

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Your exact situation may differ, but in this example, a token is read
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from an ``apikey`` query parameter, the proper username is loaded from that
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value, and then a User object is created::
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value and then a User object is created::
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// src/Acme/HelloBundle/Security/ApiKeyAuthenticator.php
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namespace Acme\HelloBundle\Security;
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public function authenticateToken(TokenInterface $token, UserProviderInterface $userProvider, $providerKey)
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{
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$apiKey = $token->getCredentials();
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if (!$username = $this->userProvider->getUsernameForApiKey($apiKey)) {
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$username = $this->userProvider->getUsernameForApiKey($apiKey)
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if (!$username) {
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throw new AuthenticationException(
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sprintf('API Key "%s" does not exist.', $apiKey)
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1. createToken
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Early in the request cycle, Symfony calls ``createToken``. Your job here
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Early in the request cycle, Symfony calls ``createToken()``. Your job here
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is to create a token object that contains all of the information from the
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request that you need to authenticate the user (e.g. the ``apikey`` query
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parameter). If that information is missing, throwing the
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parameter). If that information is missing, throwing a
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:class:`Symfony\\Component\\Security\\Core\\Exception\\BadCredentialsException`
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If ``supportsToken`` returns ``true``, Symfony will now call ``authenticateToken``.
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If ``supportsToken()`` returns ``true``, Symfony will now call ``authenticateToken()``.
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One key part is the ``$userProvider``, which is an external class that helps
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In this specific example, the following things happen in ``authenticateToken``:
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In this specific example, the following things happen in ``authenticateToken()``:
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#. First, you use the ``$userProvider`` to somehow look up the ``$username`` that
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#. Finally, you create an *authenticated token* (i.e. a token with at least one
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The goal is ultimately to use the ``$apiKey`` to find or create a User object.
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*How* you do this (e.g. query a database) and the exact class for your User
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object may vary. Those differences will be most obvious in your user provider.
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The goal is ultimately to use the ``$apiKey`` to find or create a ``User``
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object. *How* you do this (e.g. query a database) and the exact class for
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your ``User`` object may vary. Those differences will be most obvious in your
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user provider.
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The User Provider
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The ``$userProvider`` can be any user provider (see
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The ``$userProvider`` can be any user provider (see :doc:`/cookbook/security/custom_provider`).
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the user. This work is done in a ``getUsernameForApiKey`` method, which is
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created entirely custom for our use-case (i.e. this isn't a method that's
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the user. This work is done in a ``getUsernameForApiKey()`` method, which
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is created entirely custom for this use-case (i.e. this isn't a method that's
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class ApiKeyUserProvider extends UserProviderInterface
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public function getUsernameForApiKey($apiKey)
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