Symfony2: Inject current user in Service

Question

I am trying to inject the currently logged in user into a service. My goal is to extend some twig functionality to output it based on user preferences. In this example I wan

Answer 1

The user is a bad candidate to be a service.

• First it is a model not a service
• Second there is service security.context where you can get user from.

In a twig template you can use app.user. See symfony doc global-template-variables. If you want to show something based on user permissions you can do {{ is_granted('ROLE_USER') }}.