Symfony 5 > Display Roles as "human readable" - symfony

Question

I want set up Symfony 5 to use "human readable" roles for display purposes. When displaying user information in TWIG I can use {{ user.roles[0] }}. However, this displays (for example) "ROLE_ACCOUNTADMIN" (as is saved against the user in the database), but I would like it to display as "Account Administrator". With Symfony 3 where a user_roles table was used, there was a "role" and a "name" field, but this has been removed. Is it possible to accomplish this in Symfony 5 without having to define / include an array whenever I want to use this?

Answer 1

You can create an extension twig and you have many solutions ...,
but for the solution that I see the simplest, just put a field on the entity and initialize it with the main role, so you will have the info on the api and twig, mailing ...
<?php
namespace App\Entity;
// ...
class User
{
public static $USER_ROLE_AS_HUMAN_READABLE_INDEX = [
'ROLE_ACCOUNTADMIN' => 'Account Administrator',
'OTHER_ROLE' => 'Description',
// ...
]
/**
* #ORM\Id
* #ORM\Column(type="integer")
* #ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
*/
protected $id;
// without mapping ..
private $roleHumanReadable
// ...
public function __construct() {
$this->initializeRoleHumanReadable();
}
public function getRoleHumanReadable():?string
{
return $this->roleHumanReadable;
}
public function initializeRoleHumanReadable():void
{
$rolePrincipal = $this->getRoles()[0] ?? null;
if (!isset(static::$USER_ROLE_AS_HUMAN_READABLE_INDEX[$rolePrincipal])) {
return;
}
$this->roleHumanReadable = static::$USER_ROLE_AS_HUMAN_READABLE_INDEX[$rolePrincipal];
}
}