feature #4875 Added chapter about the locale based on the user entity…

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This PR was merged into the 2.3 branch.

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Added chapter about the locale based on the user entity

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Doc fix?      | no
| New docs?     | yes
| Applies to    | 2.3
| Fixed tickets | #4862

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1aaa491 Updated as per feedback.
0fc72a8 Updated as per feedback
6e986e1 Updated wording of the chapter as per discussion
66e21a9 Added chapter about the locale based on the user entity

cookbook/session/locale_sticky_session.rst

@@ -106,3 +106,112 @@ method::
     {
         $locale = $request->getLocale();
     }
+
+Setting the Locale Based on the User's Preferences
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+You might want to improve this technique even further and define the locale based on
+the user entity of the logged in user. However, since the ``LocaleListener`` is called
+before the ``FirewallListener``, which is responsible for handling authentication and
+is setting the user token into the ``TokenStorage``, you have no access to the user
+which is logged in.
+
+Let's pretend you have defined a property "locale" in your user entity which you
+want to be used as the locale for the given user. In order to achieve the wanted locale
+configuration, you can set the locale which is defined for the user to the session right
+after the login. Fortunately, you can hook into the login process and update the user's
+session before the redirect to the first page. For this you need an event listener for the
+``security.interactive_login`` event:
+
+.. code-block:: php
+
+    // src/AppBundle/EventListener/UserLocaleListener.php
+    namespace AppBundle\EventListener;
+
+    use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Session\Session;
+    use Symfony\Component\Security\Http\Event\InteractiveLoginEvent;
+
+    /**
+     * Stores the locale of the user in the session after the
+     * login. This can be used by the LocaleListener afterwards.
+     */
+    class UserLocaleListener
+    {
+        /**
+         * @var Session
+         */
+        private $session;
+
+        public function __construct(Session $session)
+        {
+            $this->session = $session;
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * @param InteractiveLoginEvent $event
+         */
+        public function onInteractiveLogin(InteractiveLoginEvent $event)
+        {
+            $user = $event->getAuthenticationToken()->getUser();
+
+            if (null !== $user->getLocale()) {
+                $this->session->set('_locale', $user->getLocale());
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+Then register the listener:
+
+.. configuration-block::
+
+    .. code-block:: yaml
+
+        # app/config/services.yml
+        services:
+            app.user_locale_listener:
+                class: AppBundle\EventListener\UserLocaleListener
+                arguments: [@session]
+                tags:
+                    - { name: kernel.event_listener, event: security.interactive_login, method: onInteractiveLogin }
+
+    .. code-block:: xml
+
+        <!-- app/config/services.xml -->
+        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
+        <container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services"
+            xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+            xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services
+                http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd">
+
+            <services>
+                <service id="app.user_locale_listener"
+                    class="AppBundle\EventListener\UserLocaleListener">
+
+                    <argument type="service" id="session"/>
+
+                    <tag name="kernel.event_listener"
+                        event="security.interactive_login"
+                        method="onInteractiveLogin" />
+                </service>
+            </services>
+        </container>
+
+    .. code-block:: php
+
+        // app/config/services.php
+        $container
+            ->register('app.user_locale_listener', 'AppBundle\EventListener\UserLocaleListener')
+            ->addArgument('session')
+            ->addTag(
+                'kernel.event_listener',
+                array('event' => 'security.interactive_login', 'method' => 'onInteractiveLogin'
+            );
+
+.. caution::
+
+    With this configuration you are all set for having the locale based on the user's
+    locale. If however the locale changes during the session, it would not be updated
+    since with the current implementation the user locale will only be stored to the
+    session on login. In order to update the language immediately after a user has
+    changed their language, you need to update the session after an update to
+    the user entity.