When are user roles refreshed and how to force it?

Question

First off, I\'m not using FOSUserBundle and I can\'t because I\'m porting a legacy system which has its own Model layer (no Doctrine/Mongo/whatsoever here) and other very cu

Answer 1

From a Controller, after adding roles to a user, and saving to the database, simply call:

// Force refresh of user roles
$token = $this->get('security.context')->getToken()->setAuthenticated(false);