File Content: GlobalExecutionContextInterface.php <?php /* * This file is part of the Symfony package. * * (c) Fabien Potencier <fabien@symfony.com> * * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE * file that was distributed with this source code. */ namespace Symfony\Component\Validator; /** * Stores the node-independent state of a validation run. * * When the validator validates a graph of objects, it uses two classes to * store the state during the validation: * * <ul> * <li>For each node in the validation graph (objects, properties, getters) the * validator creates an instance of {@link ExecutionContextInterface} that * stores the information about that node.</li> * <li>One single <tt>GlobalExecutionContextInterface</tt> stores the state * that is independent of the current node.</li> * </ul> * * @author Bernhard Schussek <bschussek@gmail.com> */ interface GlobalExecutionContextInterface { /** * Returns the violations generated by the validator so far. * * @return ConstraintViolationListInterface A list of constraint violations. */ public function getViolations(); /** * Returns the value at which validation was started in the object graph. * * @return mixed The root value. * * @see ExecutionContextInterface::getRoot */ public function getRoot(); /** * Returns the visitor instance used to validate the object graph nodes. * * @return ValidationVisitorInterface The validation visitor. */ public function getVisitor(); /** * Returns the factory for constraint validators. * * @return ConstraintValidatorFactoryInterface The constraint validator factory. */ public function getValidatorFactory(); /** * Returns the factory for validation metadata objects. * * @return MetadataFactoryInterface The metadata factory. */ public function getMetadataFactory(); } Submit