How to get the current logged User in a service

Question

In Symfony 2.8/3.0, with our fancy new security components, how do I get the currently logged User (i.e. FOSUser) object in a service without

Answer 1

Inject security.token_storage service into your service, and then use:

$this->token_storage->getToken()->getUser();

as described here: http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/security.html#retrieving-the-user-object and here: http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/service_container.html#referencing-injecting-services