Symfony kernel.controller event send response

Question

as far as I read the Symfony-Documentation i can't find anything about the response handling in the kernel.controller event.

For the kernel.request event the documentation says:

If a Response is returned at this stage, the process skips directly to the kernel.response event.

But what about the kernel.controller event? If I'm returning a response in the kernel.controller event listener the response is sent to the client but the process isn't canceled and the requested controller action is called.

Is it possible to send a response within the kernel.controller event without proceeding to the requested controller?

Answer 1

Indirectly, you can by changing the controller in the FilterControllerEvent.

You can use any callable as a controller, given that it returns a Response object in the end. In your event listener, you could for example do the following:

$event->setController(function() {
    return new Response();
});

Of course you can return any kind of response in your controller.