kernel.request

Event Class: GetResponseEvent

This event is dispatched very early in Symfony, before the controller is determined.

These are the built-in Symfony listeners registered to this event:

kernel.controller

Event Class: FilterControllerEvent

This event can be an entry point used to modify the controller that should be executed:

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use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Event\FilterControllerEvent;

public function onKernelController(FilterControllerEvent $event)
{
    $controller = $event->getController();
    // ...

    // the controller can be changed to any PHP callable
    $event->setController($controller);
}

This is the built-in Symfony listener related to this event:

kernel.view

Event Class: GetResponseForControllerResultEvent

This event is not used by the FrameworkBundle, but it can be used to implement a view sub-system. This event is called only if the Controller does not return a Response object. The purpose of the event is to allow some other return value to be converted into a Response.

The value returned by the Controller is accessible via the getControllerResult() method:

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use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Event\GetResponseForControllerResultEvent;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

public function onKernelView(GetResponseForControllerResultEvent $event)
{
    $val = $event->getControllerResult();
    $response = new Response();

    // ... somehow customize the Response from the return value

    $event->setResponse($response);
}

kernel.response

Event Class: FilterResponseEvent

The purpose of this event is to allow other systems to modify or replace the Response object after its creation:

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public function onKernelResponse(FilterResponseEvent $event)
{
    $response = $event->getResponse();

    // ... modify the response object
}

The FrameworkBundle registers several listeners:

ProfilerListener

Collects data for the current request.

WebDebugToolbarListener

Injects the Web Debug Toolbar.

ResponseListener

Fixes the Response Content-Type based on the request format.

EsiListener

Adds a Surrogate-Control HTTP header when the Response needs to be parsed for ESI tags.

These are the built-in Symfony listeners registered to this event:

kernel.finish_request

Event Class: FinishRequestEvent

The purpose of this event is to allow you to reset the global and environmental state of the application after a sub-request has finished (for example, the translator listener resets the translator's locale to the one of the parent request):

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public function onKernelFinishRequest(FinishRequestEvent $event)
{
    if (null === $parentRequest = $this->requestStack->getParentRequest()) {
        return;
    }

    //Reset the locale of the subrequest to the locale of the parent request
    $this->setLocale($parentRequest);
}

These are the built-in Symfony listeners related to this event:

kernel.terminate

Event Class: PostResponseEvent

The purpose of this event is to perform tasks after the response was already served to the client.

This is the built-in Symfony listener related to this event:

kernel.exception

Event Class: GetResponseForExceptionEvent

The TwigBundle registers an ExceptionListener that forwards the Request to a given controller defined by the exception_listener.controller parameter.

A listener on this event can create and set a Response object, create and set a new Exception object, or do nothing:

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use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Event\GetResponseForExceptionEvent;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

public function onKernelException(GetResponseForExceptionEvent $event)
{
    $exception = $event->getException();
    $response = new Response();
    // setup the Response object based on the caught exception
    $event->setResponse($response);

    // you can alternatively set a new Exception
    // $exception = new \Exception('Some special exception');
    // $event->setException($exception);
}

These are the built-in Symfony listeners registered to this event: