name : MetadataInterface.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; /** * A container for validation metadata. * * The container contains constraints that may belong to different validation * groups. Constraints for a specific group can be fetched by calling * {@link findConstraints}. * * Implement this interface to add validation metadata to your own metadata * layer. Each metadata may have named properties. Each property can be * represented by one or more {@link PropertyMetadataInterface} instances that * are returned by {@link getPropertyMetadata}. Since * <tt>PropertyMetadataInterface</tt> inherits from <tt>MetadataInterface</tt>, * each property may be divided into further properties. * * The {@link accept} method of each metadata implements the Visitor pattern. * The method should forward the call to the visitor's * {@link ValidationVisitorInterface::visit} method and additionally call * <tt>accept()</tt> on all structurally related metadata instances. * * For example, to store constraints for PHP classes and their properties, * create a class <tt>ClassMetadata</tt> (implementing <tt>MetadataInterface</tt>) * and a class <tt>PropertyMetadata</tt> (implementing <tt>PropertyMetadataInterface</tt>). * <tt>ClassMetadata::getPropertyMetadata($property)</tt> returns all * <tt>PropertyMetadata</tt> instances for a property of that class. Its * <tt>accept()</tt>-method simply forwards to <tt>ValidationVisitorInterface::visit()</tt> * and calls <tt>accept()</tt> on all contained <tt>PropertyMetadata</tt> * instances, which themselves call <tt>ValidationVisitorInterface::visit()</tt> * again. * * @author Bernhard Schussek <bschussek@gmail.com> */ interface MetadataInterface { /** * Implementation of the Visitor design pattern. * * Calls {@link ValidationVisitorInterface::visit} and then forwards the * <tt>accept()</tt>-call to all property metadata instances. * * @param ValidationVisitorInterface $visitor The visitor implementing the validation logic. * @param mixed $value The value to validate. * @param string|string[] $group The validation group to validate in. * @param string $propertyPath The current property path in the validation graph. */ public function accept(ValidationVisitorInterface $visitor, $value, $group, $propertyPath); /** * Returns all constraints for a given validation group. * * @param string $group The validation group. * * @return Constraint[] A list of constraint instances. */ public function findConstraints($group); }