user_context¶
This chapter describes how to configure user context caching. See the User Context Feature chapter for an introduction to the subject.
Configuration¶
Caching Proxy Configuration¶
Varnish¶
Set up Varnish caching proxy as explained in the user context documentation.
Symfony reverse proxy¶
Set up Symfony reverse proxy as explained in the Symfony HttpCache documentation.
Context Hash Route¶
Then add the route you specified in the hash lookup request to the Symfony2 routing configuration, so that the user context event subscriber can get triggered:
# app/config/routing.yml
user_context_hash:
path: /user-context-hash
Important
If you are using Symfony2 security for the hash generation, make sure that this route is inside the firewall for which you are doing the cache groups.
Note
This route is never actually used, as the context event subscriber will act before a controller would be called. But the user context is handled only after security happened. Security in turn only happens after the routing. If the routing does not find a route, the request is aborted with a ‘not found’ error and the listener is never triggered.
The event subscriber has priority 7 which makes it act right after the security listener which has priority 8. The reason to use a listener here rather than a controller is that many expensive operations happen later in the handling of the request. Having this listener avoids those.
enabled¶
type: enum default: auto options: true, false, auto
Set to true to explicitly enable the subscriber. The subscriber is automatically enabled if you configure any of the user_context options.
# app/config/config.yml
fos_http_cache:
user_context:
enabled: true
hash_header¶
type: string default: X-User-Context-Hash
The name of the HTTP header that the event subscriber will store the context hash in when responding to hash requests. Every other response will vary on this header.
match¶
accept¶
type: string default: application/vnd.fos.user-context-hash
HTTP Accept header that hash requests use to get the context hash. This must correspond to your caching proxy configuration.
method¶
type: string
HTTP method used by context hash requests, most probably either GET or HEAD. This must correspond to your caching proxy configuration.
matcher_service¶
type: string default: fos_http_cache.user_context.request_matcher
Id of a service that determines whether a request is a context hash request. The service must implement Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RequestMatcherInterface. If set, accept and method will be ignored.
hash_cache_ttl¶
type: integer default: 0
Time in seconds that context hash responses will be cached. Value 0 means caching is disabled. For performance reasons, it makes sense to cache the hash generation response; after all, each content request may trigger a hash request. However, when you decide to cache hash responses, you must invalidate them when the user context changes, particularly when the user logs in or out. This bundle provides a logout handler that takes care of this for you.
logout_handler¶
The logout handler will invalidate any cached user hashes when the user logs out.
For the handler to work:
- your caching proxy should be configured for BANs
- Symfony’s default behaviour of regenerating the session id when users log in and out must be enabled (invalidate_session).
Add the handler to your firewall configuration:
# app/config/security.yml
security:
firewalls:
secured_area:
logout:
invalidate_session: true
handlers:
- fos_http_cache.user_context.logout_handler
enabled¶
type: enum default: auto options: true, false, auto
Defauts to auto, which enables the logout handler service if a proxy client is configured. Set to true to explicitly enable the logout handler. This will throw an exception if no proxy client is configured.
user_identifier_headers¶
type: array default: ['Cookie', 'Authorization']
Determines which HTTP request headers the context hash responses will vary on.
If the hash only depends on the Authorization header and should be cached for 15 minutes, configure:
# app/config/config.yml
fos_http_cache:
user_context:
user_identifier_headers:
- Authorization
hash_cache_ttl: 900
role_provider¶
type: boolean default: false
One of the most common scenarios is to differentiate the content based on the roles of the user. Set role_provider to true to determine the hash from the user’s roles. If there is a security context that can provide the roles, all roles are added to the hash:
# app/config/config.yml
fos_http_cache
user_context:
role_provider: true
Custom Context Providers¶
Custom providers need to:
- implement FOS\HttpCache\UserContext\ContextProviderInterface
- be tagged with fos_http_cache.user_context_provider.
The updateUserContext(UserContext $context) method is called when the hash is generated.
acme.demo_bundle.my_service:
class: "%acme.demo_bundle.my_service.class%"
tags:
- { name: fos_http_cache.user_context_provider }
<service id="acme.demo_bundle.my_service" class="%acme.demo_bundle.my_service.class%">
<tag name="fos_http_cache.user_context_provider" />
</service>