Alter existing routes doesn't work

Question

I'm working on a D8 project trying to add custom access rules to some pages.

I want to restrict access to specific users based on their id.

I checked this and seems easy but I can't make it work!

I want to change the access for the route

entity.webform_submission.canonical /admin/structure/webform/manage/{webform}/submission/{webform_submission}

But as I didn't manage to make it work I tried an easier example

contact.site_page
/contact

(Which also doesn't work)

So I created my routing file under my_module/src/Routing folder :

namespace Drupal\my_module\Routing;

use Drupal\Core\Routing\RouteSubscriberBase;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\RouteCollection;

/**
 * Listens to the dynamic route events.
 */
class RouteSubscriber extends RouteSubscriberBase {

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  protected function alterRoutes(RouteCollection $collection) {
    if ($route_item = $collection->get('contact.site_page')) {
      $requirements = $route_item->getRequirements();
      unset($requirements['_permission']);
      $route_item->setRequirement('_access', 'FALSE');
    }
  }
}

After that I added the service file in my_module's root folder:

services:
  my_module.route_subscriber:
    class: Drupal\my_module\Routing\RouteSubscriber
    tags:
      - { name: event_subscriber }

But I don't get Access denied when I visit those pages.

Also, is there any way to test it by using dsm or var_dump?

Any idea/help/suggestion?

Answer 1

you need to enable kint() to get the routs but you need to make sure the permissions for using kint() is correct. and you can add your debugging into alterRouts()