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class SamlController in SAML Authentication 8.3

Same name and namespace in other branches
  1. 8 src/Controller/SamlController.php \Drupal\samlauth\Controller\SamlController
  2. 8.2 src/Controller/SamlController.php \Drupal\samlauth\Controller\SamlController
  3. 4.x src/Controller/SamlController.php \Drupal\samlauth\Controller\SamlController

Returns responses for samlauth module routes.

Hierarchy

Expanded class hierarchy of SamlController

7 files declare their use of SamlController
samlauth.install in ./samlauth.install
Update and uninstall functions for the samlauth module.
samlauth.module in ./samlauth.module
Allows users to authenticate against an external SAML identity provider.
SamlauthConfigureForm.php in src/Form/SamlauthConfigureForm.php
SamlauthMappingEditForm.php in modules/samlauth_user_fields/src/Form/SamlauthMappingEditForm.php
SamlauthMappingListForm.php in modules/samlauth_user_fields/src/Form/SamlauthMappingListForm.php

... See full list

File

src/Controller/SamlController.php, line 28

Namespace

Drupal\samlauth\Controller
View source
class SamlController extends ControllerBase {
  use ExecuteInRenderContextTrait;

  /**
   * Name of the configuration object containing the setting used by this class.
   */
  const CONFIG_OBJECT_NAME = 'samlauth.authentication';

  /**
   * The samlauth SAML service.
   *
   * @var \Drupal\samlauth\SamlService
   */
  protected $saml;

  /**
   * The request stack.
   *
   * @var \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RequestStack
   */
  protected $requestStack;

  /**
   * The PathValidator service.
   *
   * @var \Drupal\Core\Path\PathValidatorInterface
   */
  protected $pathValidator;

  /**
   * The renderer service.
   *
   * @var \Drupal\Core\Render\RendererInterface
   */
  protected $renderer;

  /**
   * The token service.
   *
   * @var \Drupal\Core\Utility\Token
   */
  protected $token;

  /**
   * The messenger service.
   *
   * @var \Drupal\Core\Messenger\MessengerInterface
   */
  protected $messenger;

  /**
   * A logger instance.
   *
   * @var \Psr\Log\LoggerInterface
   */
  protected $logger;

  /**
   * SamlController constructor.
   *
   * @param \Drupal\samlauth\SamlService $saml
   *   The samlauth SAML service.
   * @param \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RequestStack $request_stack
   *   The request stack.
   * @param \Drupal\Core\Config\ConfigFactoryInterface $config_factory
   *   The config factory.
   * @param \Drupal\Core\Path\PathValidatorInterface $path_validator
   *   The PathValidator service.
   * @param \Drupal\Core\Render\RendererInterface $renderer
   *   The Renderer service.
   * @param \Drupal\Core\Utility\Token $token
   *   The token service.
   * @param \Drupal\Core\Messenger\MessengerInterface $messenger
   *   The messenger service.
   * @param \Psr\Log\LoggerInterface $logger
   *   A logger instance.
   */
  public function __construct(SamlService $saml, RequestStack $request_stack, ConfigFactoryInterface $config_factory, PathValidatorInterface $path_validator, RendererInterface $renderer, Token $token, MessengerInterface $messenger, LoggerInterface $logger) {
    $this->saml = $saml;
    $this->requestStack = $request_stack;
    $this->configFactory = $config_factory;
    $this->pathValidator = $path_validator;
    $this->renderer = $renderer;
    $this->token = $token;
    $this->messenger = $messenger;
    $this->logger = $logger;
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public static function create(ContainerInterface $container) {
    return new static($container
      ->get('samlauth.saml'), $container
      ->get('request_stack'), $container
      ->get('config.factory'), $container
      ->get('path.validator'), $container
      ->get('renderer'), $container
      ->get('token'), $container
      ->get('messenger'), $container
      ->get('logger.channel.samlauth'));
  }

  /**
   * Initiates a SAML2 authentication flow.
   *
   * This route does not log us in (yet); it should redirect to the Login
   * service on the IdP, which should be redirecting back to our ACS endpoint
   * after authenticating the user.
   *
   * @return \Drupal\Core\Routing\TrustedRedirectResponse
   *   The HTTP response to send back.
   */
  public function login() {

    // $function returns a string and supposedly never calls 'external' Drupal
    // code... so it wouldn't need to be executed inside a render context. The
    // standard exception handling does, though.
    $function = function () {
      return $this->saml
        ->login($this
        ->getUrlFromDestination());
    };

    // This response redirects to an external URL in all/common cases. We count
    // on the routing.yml to specify that it's not cacheable.
    return $this
      ->getShortenedRedirectResponse($function, 'initiating SAML login', '<front>');
  }

  /**
   * Initiates a SAML2 logout flow.
   *
   * According to the SAML spec, this route does not log us out (yet); it
   * should redirect to the SLS service on the IdP, which should be redirecting
   * back to our SLS endpoint (possibly first logging out from other systems
   * first). We do usually log out before redirecting, though.
   *
   * @return \Drupal\Core\Routing\TrustedRedirectResponse
   *   The HTTP response to send back.
   */
  public function logout() {

    // $function returns a string and supposedly never calls 'external' Drupal
    // code... so it wouldn't need to be executed inside a render context. The
    // standard exception handling does, though.
    $function = function () {
      return $this->saml
        ->logout($this
        ->getUrlFromDestination());
    };

    // This response redirects to an external URL in all/common cases. We count
    // on the routing.yml to specify that it's not cacheable.
    return $this
      ->getShortenedRedirectResponse($function, 'initiating SAML logout', '<front>');
  }

  /**
   * Displays service provider metadata XML for iDP autoconfiguration.
   *
   * @return \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response
   *   The HTTP response to send back.
   */
  public function metadata() {
    $config = $this
      ->config(self::CONFIG_OBJECT_NAME);
    try {

      // Things we need to take into account:
      // - The validUntil and cacheDuration properties are optional in the
      //   SAML spec, but the SAML PHP Toolkit always assigns values. (At the
      //   time of checking: "2 days into the future" and "1 week",
      //   respectively. No reason provided for these figures.)
      // - The only info we can find so far is one hint at wiki.shibboleth.net
      //   MetadataManagementBestPractices: "[cacheDuration] is merely a hint
      //   but metadata expiration [validUntil] is absolute". This matches bug
      //   reports: if we send a validUntil in the past, logins stop working.
      // - We want the HTTP response (with XML contents) to be cacheable
      //   (which, hand-wavy, means 2 things: the Drupal render cache which is
      //   controlled by CacheableResponse, and whatever other HTTP proxies
      //   there may be which are controlled by HTTP headers.) Unlike the
      //   SAML validUntil, we can turn this off for testing.
      // - Once a cacheable response is sent, (we'll assume) we cannot purge it.
      //   Once any response is sent, we cannot purge data from the requester
      //   (IdP).
      // So:
      // - We must make sure no validUntil date in a cached response is ever in
      //   the past - i.e. it must be equal/larger than the response 'expires'
      //   value.
      // - For configuration values, let's make the 'validUntil period'
      //   configurable, plus a checkbox for response caching. Let's set the
      //   response expiry to (validUntil - 10 seconds) to sidestep weird
      //   response delays.
      // - For the cacheDuration value, we don't have much of an idea what is a
      //   good value - except, given the above defaults, it apparently doesn't
      //   matter much if it is a lot higher than validUntil. A cached response
      //   on our side could in extreme circumstances indicate a 'validUntil'
      //   of 10 seconds from now, and a 'cacheDuration' of a week. Is that
      //   bad? Apparently not, if "validUntil is absolute".
      $metadata_valid = $config
        ->get('metadata_valid_secs') ?: Metadata::TIME_VALID;
      $metadata = $this->saml
        ->getMetadata(time() + $metadata_valid);

      // Default is TRUE for existing installs.
      if ($config
        ->get('metadata_cache_http') ?? TRUE) {
        $response = new CacheableResponse($metadata, 200, [
          'Content-Type' => 'text/xml',
        ]);
        $response
          ->setMaxAge($metadata_valid > 10 ? $metadata_valid - 10 : $metadata_valid);
      }
      else {
        $response = new Response($metadata, 200, [
          'Content-Type' => 'text/xml',
        ]);
      }
    } catch (\Exception $e) {

      // This (invoking the exception handling that executes inside a render
      // context) is an awfully convoluted way of handling the exception - but
      // it reuses code and generates the redirect response in a 'protected'
      // way. (Is it even useful to redirect to the front page with an error
      // message? It will not help non-humans requesting the XML document. But
      // humans checking this path will at least see a better hint of what's
      // going on, than if we just return Drupal's plain general exception
      // response. And rendering an error page without redirecting... seems too
      // much effort.)
      $function = function () use ($e) {
        throw $e;
      };
      $response = $this
        ->getTrustedRedirectResponse($function, 'processing SAML SP metadata', '<front>');
    }
    return $response;
  }

  /**
   * Performs the Attribute Consumer Service.
   *
   * This is usually the second step in the authentication flow; the Login
   * service on the IdP should redirect (or: execute a POST request to) here.
   *
   * @return \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response
   *   The HTTP response to send back.
   */
  public function acs() {

    // We don't necessarily need to wrap our code in a render context: because
    // our redirect is always internal, we could work with a plain
    // non-cacheable RedirectResponse which will not cause a "leaked metadata"
    // exception even if some code leaks metadata. But we'll use the same
    // pattern as our other routes, for consistency/code reuse, and to log more
    // possible 'leaky' code. We count on the routing.yml to specify the
    // response is not cacheable.
    $function = function () {
      $ok = $this->saml
        ->acs();
      return $this
        ->getRedirectUrlAfterProcessing(TRUE, !$ok);
    };
    return $this
      ->getTrustedRedirectResponse($function, 'processing SAML authentication response', '<front>');
  }

  /**
   * Performs the Single Logout Service.
   *
   * This is usually the second step in the logout flow; the SLS service on the
   * IdP should redirect here.
   *
   * @return \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response
   *   The HTTP response to send back.
   */
  public function sls() {
    $function = function () {
      return $this->saml
        ->sls() ?: $this
        ->getRedirectUrlAfterProcessing();
    };

    // This response redirects to an external URL in most cases. (Except for
    // SP-initiated logout that was initially started from this SP, i.e.
    // through the logout() route). We count on the routing.yml to specify that
    // it's not cacheable.
    return $this
      ->getShortenedRedirectResponse($function, 'processing SAML single-logout response', '<front>');
  }

  /**
   * Redirects to the 'Change Password' service.
   *
   * @return \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RedirectResponse
   *   The HTTP response to send back.
   */
  public function changepw() {
    $function = function () {
      $url = $this
        ->config(self::CONFIG_OBJECT_NAME)
        ->get('idp_change_password_service');
      if (!$url) {
        throw new UserVisibleException("Change password service is not available.");
      }
      return $url;
    };

    // This response is cached. (We should probably clear it from the cache
    // when the configuration is changed. On a half related note: we should
    // probably also have at least one 'user story' or other note about this
    // endpoint. The current reason for this only being available for logged-in
    // users is "v1 did it this way and there has been no reason/request to
    // change it" but we don't know if this is generally applicable for IdPs.)
    return $this
      ->getTrustedRedirectResponse($function, '', '<front>');
  }

  /**
   * Constructs a full URL from the 'destination' parameter.
   *
   * Also unsets the destination parameter. This is only considered suitable
   * for feeding a URL string into php-saml's login() / logout() methods.
   *
   * @return string|null
   *   The full absolute URL (i.e. our hostname plus the path in the destination
   *   parameter), or NULL if no destination parameter was given. This value is
   *   tuned to what login() / logout() expect for an input argument.
   *
   * @throws \Drupal\samlauth\UserVisibleException
   *   If the destination is disallowed.
   */
  protected function getUrlFromDestination() {
    $destination_url = NULL;
    $request_query_parameters = $this->requestStack
      ->getCurrentRequest()->query;
    $destination = $request_query_parameters
      ->get('destination');
    if ($destination) {
      if (UrlHelper::isExternal($destination)) {

        // Disallow redirecting to an external URL after we log in.
        throw new UserVisibleException("Destination URL query parameter must not be external: {$destination}");
      }
      $destination_url = $GLOBALS['base_url'] . '/' . $destination;

      // After we return from this controller, Drupal immediately redirects to
      // the path set in the 'destination' parameter (for the current URL being
      // handled). We want to always redirect to the IdP instead (and only use
      // $destination_url after the user gets redirected back here), so remove
      // the parameter.
      $request_query_parameters
        ->remove('destination');
    }
    return $destination_url;
  }

  /**
   * Returns a URL to redirect to.
   *
   * This should be called only after processing an ACS/logout response.
   *
   * @param bool $after_acs
   *   (Optional) TRUE if an ACS request was just processed.
   * @param bool $ignore_relay_state
   *   (Optional) TRUE if the RelayState parameter in the current request
   *   should not be used.
   *
   * @return \Drupal\Core\Url
   *   The URL to redirect to.
   */
  protected function getRedirectUrlAfterProcessing($after_acs = FALSE, $ignore_relay_state = FALSE) {
    if (!$ignore_relay_state) {
      $relay_state = $this->requestStack
        ->getCurrentRequest()
        ->get('RelayState');
      if ($relay_state) {

        // We should be able to trust the RelayState parameter at this point
        // because the response from the IdP was verified. Only validate general
        // syntax.
        if (!UrlHelper::isValid($relay_state, TRUE)) {
          $this->logger
            ->error('Invalid RelayState parameter found in request: @relaystate', [
            '@relaystate' => $relay_state,
          ]);
        }
        elseif (!preg_match('|//[^/]+/saml/log|', $relay_state)) {
          $url = $relay_state;
        }
      }
    }
    if (empty($url)) {

      // If no url was specified, we check if it was configured.
      $url = $this
        ->config(self::CONFIG_OBJECT_NAME)
        ->get($after_acs ? 'login_redirect_url' : 'logout_redirect_url');
      $url = $this->token
        ->replace($url);
    }
    if ($url) {

      // We don't check access here. If a URL was explicitly specified, we
      // prefer returning a 403 over silently redirecting somewhere else.
      $url_object = $this->pathValidator
        ->getUrlIfValidWithoutAccessCheck($url);
      if (empty($url_object)) {
        $type = $after_acs ? 'Login' : 'Logout';
        $this->logger
          ->warning("The {$type} Redirect URL is not a valid path; falling back to default.");
      }
    }
    if (empty($url_object)) {

      // If no url was configured, fall back to a hardcoded route.
      if ($this
        ->currentUser()
        ->isAuthenticated()) {
        $url_object = Url::fromRoute('entity.user.canonical', [
          'user' => $this
            ->currentUser()
            ->id(),
        ]);
      }
      else {
        $url_object = Url::fromRoute('<front>');
      }
    }
    return $url_object;
  }

  /**
   * Gets a redirect response and modifies it a bit.
   *
   * Split off from getTrustedRedirectResponse() because that's in a trait.
   *
   * @param callable $callable
   *   Callable.
   * @param string $while
   *   Description of when we're doing this, for error logging.
   * @param string $redirect_route_on_exception
   *   Drupal route name to redirect to on exception.
   */
  protected function getShortenedRedirectResponse(callable $callable, $while, $redirect_route_on_exception) {
    $response = $this
      ->getTrustedRedirectResponse($callable, $while, $redirect_route_on_exception);

    // Symfony RedirectResponses set a HTML document as content, which is going
    // to be ugly with our long URLs. Almost noone sees this content for a
    // HTTP redirect, but still: overwrite it with a similar HTML document that
    // doesn't include the URL parameter blurb in the rendered parts.
    $url = $response
      ->getTargetUrl();
    $pos = strpos($url, '?');
    $shortened_url = $pos ? substr($url, 0, $pos) : $url;

    // Almost literal copy from RedirectResponse::setTargetUrl():
    $response
      ->setContent(sprintf('<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8" />
        <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=%1$s" />

        <title>Redirecting to %2$s</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        Redirecting to <a href="%1$s">%2$s</a>.
    </body>
</html>', htmlspecialchars($url, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'), $shortened_url));
    return $response;
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   *
   * @todo in 4.x, always throw; move our own error handling into
   *   AccessDeniedSubscriber. This means the situation of error_throw=TRUE
   *   will become standard.
   *   It would be nice to first do some investigation if contrib modules doing
   *   error redirection (customerror / error_redirect?) are mature / have good
   *   code, before doing this. If so, we can safely get rid of the
   *   'error_redirect_url' setting and recommend installing a module if this
   *   functionality is needed.
   */
  protected function handleExceptionInRenderContext(\Exception $exception, $default_redirect_route, $while = '') {
    if ($exception instanceof TooManyRequestsHttpException) {

      // If this ever happens, don't spend time on a RedirectResponse (when the
      // redirected page will need to spend time rendering the page that
      // includes an error message. Throwing an exception here will fall
      // through to the Symfony HttpKernel - and unfortunately for us, Drupal's
      // CustomPageExceptionHtmlSubscriber will intercept the response handling
      // and redirect anyway, unless we intercept it first in our own
      // AccessDeniedSubscriber.)
      throw $exception;
    }
    $config = $this
      ->config(self::CONFIG_OBJECT_NAME);

    // This config value (possibly together with 'error_redirect_url') will
    // likely be removed in the 4.x version of the module - and we'll always
    // throw an exception for errors. (This module's default error handling
    // will then be in an event subscriber which can more easily be
    // overridden. For now, explicitly set 'error_throw' if you want to
    // have your own event subscriber catch handle the error on a
    // KernelEvents::EXCEPTION event - see AccessDeniedSubscriber for example.)
    if ($config
      ->get('error_throw')) {
      throw new AccessDeniedHttpException($exception
        ->getMessage(), $exception);
    }
    if ($exception instanceof UserVisibleException || $config
      ->get('debug_display_error_details')) {

      // Show the full error on screen; also log, but with lowered severity.
      // Assume we don't need the "while" part for a user visible error because
      // it's likely not fully correct.
      $this->messenger
        ->addError($exception
        ->getMessage());
      $this->logger
        ->warning($exception
        ->getMessage());
    }
    else {

      // Use the same format for logging as Drupal's ExceptionLoggingSubscriber
      // except also specify where the error was encountered. (The options for
      // the "while" part are limited, so we make this part of the message
      // rather than a context parameter.)
      if ($while) {
        $while = " while {$while}";
      }
      $error = Error::decodeException($exception);
      unset($error['severity_level']);
      $this->logger
        ->critical("%type encountered{$while}: @message in %function (line %line of %file).", $error);

      // Don't expose the error to prevent information leakage; the user likely
      // can't do much with it anyway. But hint that more details are available.
      $this->messenger
        ->addError("Error encountered{$while}; details have been logged.");
    }

    // Get error URL.
    $url = $config
      ->get('error_redirect_url');
    $url_object = NULL;
    if ($url) {
      $url = $this->token
        ->replace($url);
      $url_object = $this->pathValidator
        ->getUrlIfValidWithoutAccessCheck($url);
      if (empty($url_object)) {
        $this
          ->getLogger('samlauth')
          ->warning("The Error Redirect URL is not a valid path; falling back to provided route @route.", [
          '@route' => $default_redirect_route,
        ]);
      }
    }
    if (empty($url_object)) {
      $url_object = Url::fromRoute($default_redirect_route);
    }
    return $url_object;
  }

}

Members

Namesort descending Modifiers Type Description Overrides
ControllerBase::$configFactory protected property The configuration factory.
ControllerBase::$currentUser protected property The current user service. 1
ControllerBase::$entityFormBuilder protected property The entity form builder.
ControllerBase::$entityManager protected property The entity manager.
ControllerBase::$entityTypeManager protected property The entity type manager.
ControllerBase::$formBuilder protected property The form builder. 2
ControllerBase::$keyValue protected property The key-value storage. 1
ControllerBase::$languageManager protected property The language manager. 1
ControllerBase::$moduleHandler protected property The module handler. 2
ControllerBase::$stateService protected property The state service.
ControllerBase::cache protected function Returns the requested cache bin.
ControllerBase::config protected function Retrieves a configuration object.
ControllerBase::container private function Returns the service container.
ControllerBase::currentUser protected function Returns the current user. 1
ControllerBase::entityFormBuilder protected function Retrieves the entity form builder.
ControllerBase::entityManager Deprecated protected function Retrieves the entity manager service.
ControllerBase::entityTypeManager protected function Retrieves the entity type manager.
ControllerBase::formBuilder protected function Returns the form builder service. 2
ControllerBase::keyValue protected function Returns a key/value storage collection. 1
ControllerBase::languageManager protected function Returns the language manager service. 1
ControllerBase::moduleHandler protected function Returns the module handler. 2
ControllerBase::redirect protected function Returns a redirect response object for the specified route. Overrides UrlGeneratorTrait::redirect
ControllerBase::state protected function Returns the state storage service.
ExecuteInRenderContextTrait::executeInRenderContext protected function Executes code within a render context; logs if leaked metadata is found.
ExecuteInRenderContextTrait::getTrustedRedirectResponse protected function Executes code in a render context; generates a TrustedRedirectResponse.
LinkGeneratorTrait::$linkGenerator protected property The link generator. 1
LinkGeneratorTrait::getLinkGenerator Deprecated protected function Returns the link generator.
LinkGeneratorTrait::l Deprecated protected function Renders a link to a route given a route name and its parameters.
LinkGeneratorTrait::setLinkGenerator Deprecated public function Sets the link generator service.
LoggerChannelTrait::$loggerFactory protected property The logger channel factory service.
LoggerChannelTrait::getLogger protected function Gets the logger for a specific channel.
LoggerChannelTrait::setLoggerFactory public function Injects the logger channel factory.
MessengerTrait::messenger public function Gets the messenger. 29
MessengerTrait::setMessenger public function Sets the messenger.
RedirectDestinationTrait::$redirectDestination protected property The redirect destination service. 1
RedirectDestinationTrait::getDestinationArray protected function Prepares a 'destination' URL query parameter for use with \Drupal\Core\Url.
RedirectDestinationTrait::getRedirectDestination protected function Returns the redirect destination service.
RedirectDestinationTrait::setRedirectDestination public function Sets the redirect destination service.
SamlController::$logger protected property A logger instance.
SamlController::$messenger protected property The messenger service. Overrides MessengerTrait::$messenger
SamlController::$pathValidator protected property The PathValidator service.
SamlController::$renderer protected property The renderer service.
SamlController::$requestStack protected property The request stack.
SamlController::$saml protected property The samlauth SAML service.
SamlController::$token protected property The token service.
SamlController::acs public function Performs the Attribute Consumer Service.
SamlController::changepw public function Redirects to the 'Change Password' service.
SamlController::CONFIG_OBJECT_NAME constant Name of the configuration object containing the setting used by this class.
SamlController::create public static function Instantiates a new instance of this class. Overrides ControllerBase::create
SamlController::getRedirectUrlAfterProcessing protected function Returns a URL to redirect to.
SamlController::getShortenedRedirectResponse protected function Gets a redirect response and modifies it a bit.
SamlController::getUrlFromDestination protected function Constructs a full URL from the 'destination' parameter.
SamlController::handleExceptionInRenderContext protected function @todo in 4.x, always throw; move our own error handling into AccessDeniedSubscriber. This means the situation of error_throw=TRUE will become standard. It would be nice to first do some investigation if contrib modules doing error redirection… Overrides ExecuteInRenderContextTrait::handleExceptionInRenderContext
SamlController::login public function Initiates a SAML2 authentication flow.
SamlController::logout public function Initiates a SAML2 logout flow.
SamlController::metadata public function Displays service provider metadata XML for iDP autoconfiguration.
SamlController::sls public function Performs the Single Logout Service.
SamlController::__construct public function SamlController constructor.
StringTranslationTrait::$stringTranslation protected property The string translation service. 1
StringTranslationTrait::formatPlural protected function Formats a string containing a count of items.
StringTranslationTrait::getNumberOfPlurals protected function Returns the number of plurals supported by a given language.
StringTranslationTrait::getStringTranslation protected function Gets the string translation service.
StringTranslationTrait::setStringTranslation public function Sets the string translation service to use. 2
StringTranslationTrait::t protected function Translates a string to the current language or to a given language.
UrlGeneratorTrait::$urlGenerator protected property The url generator.
UrlGeneratorTrait::getUrlGenerator Deprecated protected function Returns the URL generator service.
UrlGeneratorTrait::setUrlGenerator Deprecated public function Sets the URL generator service.
UrlGeneratorTrait::url Deprecated protected function Generates a URL or path for a specific route based on the given parameters.