My application shows a list of projects, project detail pages and forms to edit these projects. These are the routes:
- / - list of projects
- /project/42 - view project (project detail page)
- /project/42/edit - edit project
Only its owner may edit a project.
I have implemented a Voter to prevent access to /project/42/edit for non-owners.
Now, I also want to hide the link "edit project" from the project detail page. What would be the way to do this? Ideally, in Twig, I would like to do something like
{% if may_access(path('project_edit', { 'id': project.id })) %}
<a href="{{ path('project_edit', { 'id': project.id }) }}">edit project</a>
{% endif %}
I can implement this function as a Twig extension, but maybe a similar functionality already exists.
The function is_granted() actually has a second parameter that allows me to do just what I need:
{% if is_granted("MAY_EDIT", project) %}
<a href="{{ path('project_edit', { 'id': project.id }) }}">edit project</a>
{% endif %}
I use this in combination with a check in the controller action:
public function editAction(Project $project)
{
if (!$this->get('security.context')->isGranted('MAY_EDIT', $project)) {
$this->flash('You are not allowed to edit this project');
return $this->show($project);
}
// ...
}
This is actually very similar to the approach that nifr used in his answer to Sonata User - Security on custom field. I was hoping to find a way to have the voter be called automatically and avoid the call to isGranted().
If you want to have a look at the complete code, it is in the tutorial project I have published in github.