public function createAndPersistUser($username, $password)
{
# Persisting identity principal
$principalidentity = new UserPrincipal();
$principalidentity->setDisplayname(ucwords($username));
$principalidentity->setUri('principals/' . $username);
$principalidentity->setEmail('*****@*****.**');
$this->entityManager->persist($principalidentity);
# Persisting user
$user = new User();
$user->setUsername($username);
# Not setting salt; handled by the user entity
$user->setPassword($this->passwordencoder->encodePassword($password, $user->getSalt()));
$user->addRole('ROLE_ADMIN');
$user->addRole('ROLE_FRONTEND_USER');
$this->entityManager->persist($user);
$this->entityManager->flush();
return $user;
}
