UserPasswordEncoderInterface Autowiring Not Working Symfony 4.4 - php

Question

I have a super basic API endpoint with a fresh install of symfony 4.4 and I'm getting the following error:
Cannot autowire argument $passwordEncoder of
"App\Controller\AuthenticationController::authenticateAction()": it
references interface
"Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Encoder\UserPasswordEncoderInterface"
but no such service exists.
My Controller:
<?php
namespace App\Controller;
use App\Entity\User;
use FOS\RestBundle\Controller\AbstractFOSRestController;
use FOS\RestBundle\Controller\Annotations as Rest;
use FOS\RestBundle\Controller\Annotations\Route;
use Lexik\Bundle\JWTAuthenticationBundle\Encoder\JWTEncoderInterface;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Encoder\UserPasswordEncoderInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Exception\CustomUserMessageAuthenticationException;
/**
* Class AuthenticationController
*
* #package App\Controller
* #Route("/api/authentication")
*/
class AuthenticationController extends AbstractFOSRestController {
/**
* #Rest\Get("/authenticate")
*
* #param Request $request
* #param UserPasswordEncoderInterface $passwordEncoder
* #param JWTEncoderInterface $JWTEncoder
*
* #return Response
*/
public function authenticateAction (Request $request, UserPasswordEncoderInterface $passwordEncoder, JWTEncoderInterface $JWTEncoder) {
exit;
}
}
If I remove UserPasswordEncoderInterface $passwordEncoder I get a successful nothing (expected for now). My User Entity is nothing special, and extends UserInterface correctly.
services.yaml
# This file is the entry point to configure your own services.
# Files in the packages/ subdirectory configure your dependencies.
# Put parameters here that don't need to change on each machine where the app is deployed
# https://symfony.com/doc/current/best_practices/configuration.html#application-related-configuration
parameters:
services:
# default configuration for services in *this* file
_defaults:
autowire: true # Automatically injects dependencies in your services.
autoconfigure: true # Automatically registers your services as commands, event subscribers, etc.
# makes classes in src/ available to be used as services
# this creates a service per class whose id is the fully-qualified class name
App\:
resource: '../src/'
exclude:
- '../src/DependencyInjection/'
- '../src/Entity/'
- '../src/Kernel.php'
- '../src/Tests/'
# controllers are imported separately to make sure services can be injected
# as action arguments even if you don't extend any base controller class
App\Controller\:
resource: '../src/Controller/'
tags: ['controller.service_arguments']
# add more service definitions when explicit configuration is needed
# please note that last definitions always *replace* previous ones
Using Symfony 4.4 and php 7.2.20
Almost certain this is some sort of configuration issue, but I'm not following what I did wrong.

Answer 1

Man am I smart, it was a config issue!
My security.yaml file was in main /config directory and not in the /config/packages directory. Ok maybe I'm not that smart...
Not sure how it got there. I think some out-dated package couldn't find it in the config/packages directory.
There goes 48 hours of my life...