requiresAuthentication() protected method

The default implementation only processed requests to a specific path, but a subclass could change this to only authenticate requests where a certain parameters is present.
protected requiresAuthentication ( Request $request ) : boolean
$request Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request
return boolean
 /**
  * {@inheritdoc}
  */
 protected function requiresAuthentication(Request $request)
 {
     if ($this->options['post_only'] && !$request->isMethod('POST')) {
         return false;
     }
     return parent::requiresAuthentication($request);
 }
 /**
  * {@inheritdoc}
  */
 protected function requiresAuthentication(Request $request)
 {
     if (false == parent::requiresAuthentication($request)) {
         return false;
     }
     return $this->getRelyingParty()->supports($request);
 }
 protected function attemptAuthentication(Request $request)
 {
     $config = array_merge(array('callback_url' => $this->options['check_path'], 'callback_transport' => 'post'), $this->options['opauth']);
     if (parent::requiresAuthentication($request)) {
         if (!isset($_POST['opauth'])) {
             throw new AuthenticationException('opauth post parameter is missing');
         }
         // check_path
         $opauth = new Opauth($config, false);
         $response = unserialize(base64_decode($_POST['opauth']));
         $failureReason = null;
         /**
          * Check if it's an error callback
          */
         if (array_key_exists('error', $response)) {
             throw new AuthenticationException($response['error']);
         } else {
             if (empty($response['auth']) || empty($response['timestamp']) || empty($response['signature']) || empty($response['auth']['provider']) || empty($response['auth']['uid'])) {
                 throw new AuthenticationException('Missing key auth response components');
             } elseif (!$opauth->validate(sha1(print_r($response['auth'], true)), $response['timestamp'], $response['signature'], $failureReason)) {
                 throw new AuthenticationException($failureReason);
             } else {
                 $token = new OpauthToken(new OpauthResult($response['auth']));
                 return $this->authenticationManager->authenticate($token);
             }
         }
     } else {
         // this should redirect or print, it's an opauth thing...
         new Opauth($config);
         // we need to exit now unfortunately...
         exit;
     }
 }
 protected function requiresAuthentication(Request $request)
 {
     return parent::requiresAuthentication($request);
 }