Injecting SecurityContext into a Listener prePersist or preUpdate in Symfony2 to get User in a createdBy or updatedBy Causes Circular Reference Error

Question

I setup a listener class where i\'ll set the ownerid column on any doctrine prePersist. My services.yml file looks like this ...

services:
my.listener:
             


        

Answer 1

There's a great answer already in this thread but everything changes. Now there're entity listeners classes in Doctrine: http://docs.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-orm/en/latest/reference/events.html#entity-listeners-class

So you can add an annotation to your entity like:

/**
 * @ORM\EntityListeners({"App\Entity\Listener\PhotoListener"})
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="App\Repository\PhotoRepository")
 */
class Photo 
{
    // Entity code here...
}

And create a class like this:

class PhotoListener
{        
    private $container;

    function __construct(ContainerInterface $container)
    {
        $this->container = $container;
    }

    /** @ORM\PreRemove() */
    public function preRemoveHandler(Photo $photo, LifecycleEventArgs $event): void
    {
         // Some code here...
    }
}

Also you should define this listener in services.yml like that:

photo_listener:
  class: App\Entity\Listener\PhotoListener
  public: false
  autowire: true
  tags:
    - {name: doctrine.orm.entity_listener}