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+<?php
+
+/*
+ * This file is part of the Symfony package.
+ *
+ * (c) Fabien Potencier <fabien@symfony.com>
+ *
+ * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
+ * file that was distributed with this source code.
+ */
+
+namespace Symfony\Component\Validator;
+
+/**
+ * A violation of a constraint that happened during validation.
+ *
+ * For each constraint that fails during validation one or more violations are
+ * created. The violations store the violation message, the path to the failing
+ * element in the validation graph and the root element that was originally
+ * passed to the validator. For example, take the following graph:
+ *
+ * <pre>
+ * (Person)---(firstName: string)
+ * \
+ * (address: Address)---(street: string)
+ * </pre>
+ *
+ * If the <tt>Person</tt> object is validated and validation fails for the
+ * "firstName" property, the generated violation has the <tt>Person</tt>
+ * instance as root and the property path "firstName". If validation fails
+ * for the "street" property of the related <tt>Address</tt> instance, the root
+ * element is still the person, but the property path is "address.street".
+ *
+ * @author Bernhard Schussek <bschussek@gmail.com>
+ */
+interface ConstraintViolationInterface
+{
+ /**
+ * Returns the violation message.
+ *
+ * @return string The violation message
+ */
+ public function getMessage();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the raw violation message.
+ *
+ * The raw violation message contains placeholders for the parameters
+ * returned by {@link getMessageParameters}. Typically you'll pass the
+ * message template and parameters to a translation engine.
+ *
+ * @return string The raw violation message
+ */
+ public function getMessageTemplate();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the parameters to be inserted into the raw violation message.
+ *
+ * @return array A possibly empty list of parameters indexed by the names
+ * that appear in the message template.
+ *
+ * @see getMessageTemplate()
+ * @deprecated since version 2.7, to be replaced by getParameters() in 3.0.
+ */
+ public function getMessageParameters();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns a number for pluralizing the violation message.
+ *
+ * For example, the message template could have different translation based
+ * on a parameter "choices":
+ *
+ * <ul>
+ * <li>Please select exactly one entry. (choices=1)</li>
+ * <li>Please select two entries. (choices=2)</li>
+ * </ul>
+ *
+ * This method returns the value of the parameter for choosing the right
+ * pluralization form (in this case "choices").
+ *
+ * @return int|null The number to use to pluralize of the message
+ *
+ * @deprecated since version 2.7, to be replaced by getPlural() in 3.0.
+ */
+ public function getMessagePluralization();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the root element of the validation.
+ *
+ * @return mixed The value that was passed originally to the validator when
+ * the validation was started. Because the validator traverses
+ * the object graph, the value at which the violation occurs
+ * is not necessarily the value that was originally validated.
+ */
+ public function getRoot();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the property path from the root element to the violation.
+ *
+ * @return string The property path indicates how the validator reached
+ * the invalid value from the root element. If the root
+ * element is a <tt>Person</tt> instance with a property
+ * "address" that contains an <tt>Address</tt> instance
+ * with an invalid property "street", the generated property
+ * path is "address.street". Property access is denoted by
+ * dots, while array access is denoted by square brackets,
+ * for example "addresses[1].street".
+ */
+ public function getPropertyPath();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the value that caused the violation.
+ *
+ * @return mixed The invalid value that caused the validated constraint to
+ * fail.
+ */
+ public function getInvalidValue();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns a machine-digestible error code for the violation.
+ *
+ * @return string|null The error code
+ */
+ public function getCode();
+}