Anonymous and authenticated users for same firewall in Symfony - php

Question

I have two firewalls for auth and api. But i want to combine them and be able to check if there is some user in controller.
firewalls:
user:
pattern: ^/api/auth
stateless: true
anonymous: true
json_login:
check_path: /api/auth/login_check
success_handler: lexik_jwt_authentication.handler.authentication_success
failure_handler: lexik_jwt_authentication.handler.authentication_failure
require_previous_session: false
api:
pattern: ^/api
stateless: true
guard:
authenticators:
- lexik_jwt_authentication.jwt_token_authenticator
access_control:
- { path: ^/api/auth, roles: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }
- { path: ^/api, roles: IS_AUTHENTICATED_FULLY }
What I want to do is to combine firewalls to one and allow any user everythere, but still be available to identify user if JWT passwed.
Is it possible?

Answer 1

In my opinion,to achieve this you will need only the firewall matching ^/api pattern and continue using guard authenticator. Then, inside your authenticator, check for the exact route requested and chose whether to continue with normal guard authenticator flow or use a custom logic to implement json login. But it is a little bit dirty even if guard permits you to implement your own logic. Keeping separated firewalls sounds better.

Answer 2

I think it is better to keep separate firewalls, as mentioned already, but in case you absolutely need to keep your application open to everybody and check if the user is authenticated in your controller, you can refer to symfony's documentation and use something like:
$this->denyAccessUnlessGranted('IS_AUTHENTICATED_FULLY');