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+<?php
+
+namespace Drupal\Core\Field;
+
+use Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface;
+use Symfony\Component\Validator\ConstraintViolationListInterface;
+
+/**
+ * Base interface definition for "Field widget" plugins.
+ *
+ * This interface details base wrapping methods that most widget implementations
+ * will want to directly inherit from Drupal\Core\Field\WidgetBase. See
+ * Drupal\Core\Field\WidgetInterface for methods that will more likely be
+ * overridden in actual widget implementations.
+ */
+interface WidgetBaseInterface extends PluginSettingsInterface {
+
+ /**
+ * Creates a form element for a field.
+ *
+ * If the entity associated with the form is new (i.e., $entity->isNew() is
+ * TRUE), the 'default value', if any, is pre-populated. Also allows other
+ * modules to alter the form element by implementing their own hooks.
+ *
+ * @param \Drupal\Core\Field\FieldItemListInterface $items
+ * An array of the field values. When creating a new entity this may be NULL
+ * or an empty array to use default values.
+ * @param array $form
+ * An array representing the form that the editing element will be attached
+ * to.
+ * @param \Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface $form_state
+ * The current state of the form.
+ * @param int $get_delta
+ * Used to get only a specific delta value of a multiple value field.
+ *
+ * @return array
+ * The form element array created for this field.
+ */
+ public function form(FieldItemListInterface $items, array &$form, FormStateInterface $form_state, $get_delta = NULL);
+
+ /**
+ * Extracts field values from submitted form values.
+ *
+ * @param \Drupal\Core\Field\FieldItemListInterface $items
+ * The field values. This parameter is altered by reference to receive the
+ * incoming form values.
+ * @param array $form
+ * The form structure where field elements are attached to. This might be a
+ * full form structure, or a sub-element of a larger form.
+ * @param \Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface $form_state
+ * The form state.
+ */
+ public function extractFormValues(FieldItemListInterface $items, array $form, FormStateInterface $form_state);
+
+ /**
+ * Reports field-level validation errors against actual form elements.
+ *
+ * @param \Drupal\Core\Field\FieldItemListInterface $items
+ * The field values.
+ * @param \Symfony\Component\Validator\ConstraintViolationListInterface $violations
+ * A list of constraint violations to flag.
+ * @param array $form
+ * The form structure where field elements are attached to. This might be a
+ * full form structure, or a sub-element of a larger form.
+ * @param \Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface $form_state
+ * The form state.
+ */
+ public function flagErrors(FieldItemListInterface $items, ConstraintViolationListInterface $violations, array $form, FormStateInterface $form_state);
+
+ /**
+ * Retrieves processing information about the widget from $form_state.
+ *
+ * This method is static so that it can be used in static Form API callbacks.
+ *
+ * @param array $parents
+ * The array of #parents where the field lives in the form.
+ * @param string $field_name
+ * The field name.
+ * @param \Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface $form_state
+ * The form state.
+ *
+ * @return array
+ * An array with the following key/value pairs:
+ * - items_count: The number of widgets to display for the field.
+ * - array_parents: The location of the field's widgets within the $form
+ * structure. This entry is populated at '#after_build' time.
+ */
+ public static function getWidgetState(array $parents, $field_name, FormStateInterface $form_state);
+
+ /**
+ * Stores processing information about the widget in $form_state.
+ *
+ * This method is static so that it can be used in static Form API #callbacks.
+ *
+ * @param array $parents
+ * The array of #parents where the widget lives in the form.
+ * @param string $field_name
+ * The field name.
+ * @param \Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface $form_state
+ * The form state.
+ * @param array $field_state
+ * The array of data to store. See getWidgetState() for the structure and
+ * content of the array.
+ */
+ public static function setWidgetState(array $parents, $field_name, FormStateInterface $form_state, array $field_state);
+
+}