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+<?php
+
+namespace Drupal\Core\PageCache;
+
+use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
+
+/**
+ * Defines the interface for request policy implementations.
+ *
+ * The request policy is evaluated in order to determine whether delivery of a
+ * cached page should be attempted. The caller should do so if static::ALLOW is
+ * returned from the check() method.
+ */
+interface RequestPolicyInterface {
+
+ /**
+ * Allow delivery of cached pages.
+ */
+ const ALLOW = 'allow';
+
+ /**
+ * Deny delivery of cached pages.
+ */
+ const DENY = 'deny';
+
+ /**
+ * Determines whether delivery of a cached page should be attempted.
+ *
+ * Note that the request-policy check runs very early. In particular it is
+ * not possible to determine the logged in user. Also the current route match
+ * is not yet present when the check runs. Therefore, request-policy checks
+ * need to be designed in a way such that they do not depend on any other
+ * service and only take in account the information present on the incoming
+ * request.
+ *
+ * When matching against the request path, special attention is needed to
+ * support path prefixes which are often used on multilingual sites.
+ *
+ * @param \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request $request
+ * The incoming request object.
+ *
+ * @return string|null
+ * One of static::ALLOW, static::DENY or NULL. Calling code may attempt to
+ * deliver a cached page if static::ALLOW is returned. Returns NULL if the
+ * policy is not specified for the given request.
+ */
+ public function check(Request $request);
+
+}