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+# ContainerInterface Meta Document
+
+## Introduction
+
+This document describes the process and discussions that lead to the `ContainerInterface`.
+Its goal is to explain the reasons behind each decision.
+
+## Goal
+
+The goal set by `ContainerInterface` is to standardize how frameworks and libraries make use of a
+container to obtain objects and parameters.
+
+By standardizing such a behavior, frameworks and libraries using the `ContainerInterface`
+could work with any compatible container.
+That would allow end users to choose their own container based on their own preferences.
+
+It is important to distinguish the two usages of a container:
+
+- configuring entries
+- fetching entries
+
+Most of the time, those two sides are not used by the same party.
+While it is often end users who tend to configure entries, it is generally the framework that fetch
+entries to build the application.
+
+This is why this interface focuses only on how entries can be fetched from a container.
+
+## Interface name
+
+The interface name has been thoroughly discussed and was decided by a vote.
+
+The list of options considered with their respective votes are:
+
+- `ContainerInterface`: +8
+- `ProviderInterface`: +2
+- `LocatorInterface`: 0
+- `ReadableContainerInterface`: -5
+- `ServiceLocatorInterface`: -6
+- `ObjectFactory`: -6
+- `ObjectStore`: -8
+- `ConsumerInterface`: -9
+
+[Full results of the vote](https://github.com/container-interop/container-interop/wiki/%231-interface-name:-Vote)
+
+The complete discussion can be read in [the issue #1](https://github.com/container-interop/container-interop/issues/1).
+
+## Interface methods
+
+The choice of which methods the interface would contain was made after a statistical analysis of existing containers.
+The results of this analysis are available [in this document](https://gist.github.com/mnapoli/6159681).
+
+The summary of the analysis showed that:
+
+- all containers offer a method to get an entry by its id
+- a large majority name such method `get()`
+- for all containers, the `get()` method has 1 mandatory parameter of type string
+- some containers have an optional additional argument for `get()`, but it doesn't have the same purpose between containers
+- a large majority of the containers offer a method to test if it can return an entry by its id
+- a majority name such method `has()`
+- for all containers offering `has()`, the method has exactly 1 parameter of type string
+- a large majority of the containers throw an exception rather than returning null when an entry is not found in `get()`
+- a large majority of the containers don't implement `ArrayAccess`
+
+The question of whether to include methods to define entries has been discussed in
+[issue #1](https://github.com/container-interop/container-interop/issues/1).
+It has been judged that such methods do not belong in the interface described here because it is out of its scope
+(see the "Goal" section).
+
+As a result, the `ContainerInterface` contains two methods:
+
+- `get()`, returning anything, with one mandatory string parameter. Should throw an exception if the entry is not found.
+- `has()`, returning a boolean, with one mandatory string parameter.
+
+### Number of parameters in `get()` method
+
+While `ContainerInterface` only defines one mandatory parameter in `get()`, it is not incompatible with
+existing containers that have additional optional parameters. PHP allows an implementation to offer more parameters
+as long as they are optional, because the implementation *does* satisfy the interface.
+
+This issue has been discussed in [issue #6](https://github.com/container-interop/container-interop/issues/6).
+
+### Type of the `$id` parameter
+
+The type of the `$id` parameter in `get()` and `has()` has been discussed in
+[issue #6](https://github.com/container-interop/container-interop/issues/6).
+While `string` is used in all the containers that were analyzed, it was suggested that allowing
+anything (such as objects) could allow containers to offer a more advanced query API.
+
+An example given was to use the container as an object builder. The `$id` parameter would then be an
+object that would describe how to create an instance.
+
+The conclusion of the discussion was that this was beyond the scope of getting entries from a container without
+knowing how the container provided them, and it was more fit for a factory.
+
+## Contributors
+
+Are listed here all people that contributed in the discussions or votes, by alphabetical order:
+
+- [Amy Stephen](https://github.com/AmyStephen)
+- [David Négrier](https://github.com/moufmouf)
+- [Don Gilbert](https://github.com/dongilbert)
+- [Jason Judge](https://github.com/judgej)
+- [Jeremy Lindblom](https://github.com/jeremeamia)
+- [Marco Pivetta](https://github.com/Ocramius)
+- [Matthieu Napoli](https://github.com/mnapoli)
+- [Paul M. Jones](https://github.com/pmjones)
+- [Stephan Hochdörfer](https://github.com/shochdoerfer)
+- [Taylor Otwell](https://github.com/taylorotwell)
+
+## Relevant links
+
+- [`ContainerInterface.php`](https://github.com/container-interop/container-interop/blob/master/src/Interop/Container/ContainerInterface.php)
+- [List of all issues](https://github.com/container-interop/container-interop/issues?labels=ContainerInterface&milestone=&page=1&state=closed)
+- [Vote for the interface name](https://github.com/container-interop/container-interop/wiki/%231-interface-name:-Vote)
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