New in Symfony 3.2: Firewall config class and profiler

November 3, 2016 Javier Eguiluz

Contributed by
Robin Chalas
in #19398 and #19490.

Introduced a new `FirewallConfig` class¶

A long-standing demand of Symfony developers was to have a class representing the current firewall configuration. In Symfony 3.2, we introduced a new Symfony\Bundle\SecurityBundle\Security\FirewallConfig class which provides information such as its name, provider, context, entry point, access denied URL, etc.

The firewall configuration can also be accessed through the getFirewallConfig(Request $request) method of the FirewallMap and through the getConfig() method of the FirewallContext.

This new class is useful to get the firewall configuration inside an authentication listener and even from the Symfony profiler, as explained below.

Integrated the firewall in the profiler¶

In Symfony 3.2, thanks to this new firewall config class, the debug toolbar displays the name of the current firewall. This is useful to quickly spot config errors in your security.yml file: