Symfony 2.1+ encodes hash/pound “#” in routes

Question

I\'m in the process of upgrading from Symfony 2.0 to 2.3. We have routes with hashes defined since we have a single page app.

A route configured via annotations:

Answer 1

If you take a look at the UrlGenerator code, you can see, the hashtag is not decoded after rawurlencode. The escaping of the hashtag was added in commit 6039569.

As a workaround you could extend the UrlGenerator class and replace the $decodedChars array with hashtag included. Then tell Symfony to use your generator class:

parameters:
    router.options.generator_base_class: Acme\MyBundle\Routing\HashtagDecodedUrlGenerator