* * 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: * *

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• 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.
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• One single GlobalExecutionContextInterface stores the state * that is independent of the current node.
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* * @author Bernhard Schussek */ 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(); }