Check if a role is granted for a specific user in Symfony2 ACL

Question

I want to check if a role is granted for a specific user in Symfony2 (not the logged user). I know that I can check it for the logged user by:

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Answer 1

The "VIEW" is a permission, not a role.

The best way to check if a user has a right (be it a role or permission) would be to access the AccessDecisionManager. Something like:

$token = new UsernamePasswordToken($user, 'none', 'none', $user->getRoles());
$attributes = is_array($attributes) ? $attributes : array($attributes);
$this->get('security.access.decision_manager')->decide($token, $attributes, $object);

See original answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22380765/971254 for details.