LexikJWTAuthenticationBundle: Cannot extend JWTAuthenticator and override loadUser method

Hi there!

I use this bundle in my symfony 6 project to authenticate my users by jwt token. Everything is going fine until I want to create a custom authenticator to add some logic in how I authenticate my users. After following the documentation https://github.com/lexik/LexikJWTAuthenticationBundle/blob/2.x/Resources/doc/6-extending-jwt-authenticator.rst, my authenticator is never called and I don’t have any error either.

In my services.yaml file

# config/services.yaml
services:
      app.jwt_custom_api_authenticator:
           class: App\Http\Api\Security\Authenticator\JWTCustomApiAuthenticator
           parent: lexik_jwt_authentication.security.jwt_authenticator

In security.yaml file

# config/packages/security.yaml
security:
  enable_authenticator_manager: true
  password_hashers:
    Symfony\Component\Security\Core\User\PasswordAuthenticatedUserInterface: 'auto'
    App\Entity\User:
      algorithm: auto

  providers:
    app_user_provider:
      entity:
        class: App\Entity\User
        property: email
  firewalls:
    dev:
      pattern: ^/(_(profiler|wdt)|css|images|js)/
      security: false

    login:
      pattern: ^/api/auth
      stateless: true
      json_login:
        username_path: email
        check_path: api_login_check
        success_handler: lexik_jwt_authentication.handler.authentication_success
        failure_handler: lexik_jwt_authentication.handler.authentication_failure


      refresh_jwt:
        check_path: api_refresh_token
        provider: app_user_provider

    api:
      pattern: ^/api
      stateless: true
      jwt:
        authenticator: app.jwt_custom_api_authenticator

    main:
      lazy: true
      provider: app_user_provider

In my App\Http\Api\Security\Authenticator\JWTCustomApiAuthenticator file

<?php

namespace App\Http\Api\Security\Authenticator;

use App\Entity\User;
use Lexik\Bundle\JWTAuthenticationBundle\Security\Authenticator\JWTAuthenticator;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Exception\UserNotFoundException;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\User\UserInterface;

class JWTCustomApiAuthenticator extends JWTAuthenticator
{
  protected function loadUser(array $payload, string $identity): UserInterface
  {
    /** @var UserInterface|User $user */
    $user  = parent::loadUser($payload, $identity);
    if ($user->isBlocked()){
      $ex = new UserNotFoundException('Your account has been deactivated by the administrators');
      $ex->setUserIdentifier($identity);
      throw $ex;
    }
    return $user;
  }
}

SYMFONY 6 + PHP 8.1

I would like to know how to implement my authenticator logic.