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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;
+
+/**
+ * Stores the node-independent state of a validation run.
+ *
+ * When the validator validates a graph of objects, it uses two classes to
+ * store the state during the validation:
+ *
+ * <ul>
+ * <li>For each node in the validation graph (objects, properties, getters) the
+ * validator creates an instance of {@link ExecutionContextInterface} that
+ * stores the information about that node.</li>
+ * <li>One single <tt>GlobalExecutionContextInterface</tt> stores the state
+ * that is independent of the current node.</li>
+ * </ul>
+ *
+ * @author Bernhard Schussek <bschussek@gmail.com>
+ *
+ * @deprecated since version 2.5, to be removed in 3.0.
+ * Use {@link Context\ExecutionContextInterface} instead.
+ */
+interface GlobalExecutionContextInterface
+{
+ /**
+ * Returns the violations generated by the validator so far.
+ *
+ * @return ConstraintViolationListInterface A list of constraint violations
+ */
+ public function getViolations();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the value at which validation was started in the object graph.
+ *
+ * @return mixed The root value
+ *
+ * @see ExecutionContextInterface::getRoot()
+ */
+ public function getRoot();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the visitor instance used to validate the object graph nodes.
+ *
+ * @return ValidationVisitorInterface The validation visitor
+ */
+ public function getVisitor();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the factory for constraint validators.
+ *
+ * @return ConstraintValidatorFactoryInterface The constraint validator factory
+ */
+ public function getValidatorFactory();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the factory for validation metadata objects.
+ *
+ * @return MetadataFactoryInterface The metadata factory
+ */
+ public function getMetadataFactory();
+}