Symfony 2 : manual login and Json Web Token

After a lot of search (google, stackoverflow, sample applications, bundle's doc , ...), it seems that there was no proposed solution to authenticate users manually from a controller.

Also, I had to open the source code, find which method is called to generate the token on successful authentication event (source code), and finally adapt the code to my need (Register/Login user to the API from the response of a Facebook login, in a mobile application).

My alternative :

// SecurityController.phpprotected function generateToken($user, $statusCode = 200){    // Call jwt_manager service & create the token    $token = $this->get('lexik_jwt_authentication.jwt_manager')->create($user);    // If you want, add some user informations    $userInformations = array(        'id'         => $user->getId(),        'username'   => $user->getUsername(),        'email'      => $user->getEmail(),        'roles'      => $user->getRoles(),    );    // Build your response    $response = array(        'token' => $token,        'user'  => $user,       );    // Return the response in JSON format    return new JsonResponse($response, $statusCode);}

The token will be returned same as the classic login_check handler, and have the same time before expiration.

Hope this help for next users.