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+<?php
+
+namespace Drupal\Core\Plugin\Context;
+
+/**
+ * Defines an interface for providing plugin contexts.
+ *
+ * Implementations only need to deal with unqualified context IDs so they only
+ * need to be unique in the context of a given service provider.
+ *
+ * The fully qualified context ID then includes the service ID:
+ * @{service_id}:{unqualified_context_id}.
+ *
+ * @see \Drupal\Core\Plugin\Context\ContextRepositoryInterface
+ */
+interface ContextProviderInterface {
+
+ /**
+ * Gets runtime context values for the given context IDs.
+ *
+ * For context-aware plugins to function correctly, all of the contexts that
+ * they require must be populated with values. So this method should set a
+ * value for each context that it adds. For example:
+ *
+ * @code
+ * // Determine a specific node to pass as context to a block.
+ * $node = ...
+ *
+ * // Set that specific node as the value of the 'node' context.
+ * $context = new Context(new ContextDefinition('entity:node'), $node);
+ * return ['node' => $context];
+ * @endcode
+ *
+ * On the other hand, there are cases, on which providers no longer are
+ * possible to provide context objects, even without the value, so the caller
+ * should not expect it.
+ *
+ * @param string[] $unqualified_context_ids
+ * The requested context IDs. The context provider must only return contexts
+ * for those IDs.
+ *
+ * @return \Drupal\Core\Plugin\Context\ContextInterface[]
+ * The determined available contexts, keyed by the unqualified context_id.
+ *
+ * @see \Drupal\Core\Plugin\Context\ContextProviderInterface:getAvailableContexts()
+ */
+ public function getRuntimeContexts(array $unqualified_context_ids);
+
+ /**
+ * Gets all available contexts for the purposes of configuration.
+ *
+ * When a context aware plugin is being configured, the configuration UI must
+ * know which named contexts are potentially available, but does not care
+ * about the value, since the value can be different for each request, and
+ * might not be available at all during the configuration UI's request.
+ *
+ * For example:
+ * @code
+ * // During configuration, there is no specific node to pass as context.
+ * // However, inform the system that a context named 'node' is
+ * // available, and provide its definition, so that context aware plugins
+ * // can be configured to use it. When the plugin, for example a block,
+ * // needs to evaluate the context, the value of this context will be
+ * // supplied by getRuntimeContexts().
+ * $context = new Context(new ContextDefinition('entity:node'));
+ * return ['node' => $context];
+ * @endcode
+ *
+ * @return \Drupal\Core\Plugin\Context\ContextInterface[]
+ * All available contexts keyed by the unqualified context ID.
+ *
+ * @see \Drupal\Core\Plugin\Context\ContextProviderInterface::getRuntimeContext()
+ */
+ public function getAvailableContexts();
+
+}