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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;
+
+/**
+ * Validates values against constraints defined in {@link MetadataInterface}
+ * instances.
+ *
+ * This interface is an implementation of the Visitor design pattern. A value
+ * is validated by first passing it to the {@link validate} method. That method
+ * will determine the matching {@link MetadataInterface} for validating the
+ * value. It then calls the {@link MetadataInterface::accept} method of that
+ * metadata. <tt>accept()</tt> does two things:
+ *
+ * <ol>
+ * <li>It calls {@link visit} to validate the value against the constraints of
+ * the metadata.</li>
+ * <li>It calls <tt>accept()</tt> on all nested metadata instances with the
+ * corresponding values extracted from the current value. For example, if the
+ * current metadata represents a class and the current value is an object of
+ * that class, the metadata contains nested instances for each property of that
+ * class. It forwards the call to these nested metadata with the values of the
+ * corresponding properties in the original object.</li>
+ * </ol>
+ *
+ * @author Bernhard Schussek <bschussek@gmail.com>
+ *
+ * @deprecated since version 2.5, to be removed in 3.0.
+ */
+interface ValidationVisitorInterface
+{
+ /**
+ * Validates a value.
+ *
+ * If the value is an array or a traversable object, you can set the
+ * parameter <tt>$traverse</tt> to <tt>true</tt> in order to run through
+ * the collection and validate each element. If these elements can be
+ * collections again and you want to traverse them recursively, set the
+ * parameter <tt>$deep</tt> to <tt>true</tt> as well.
+ *
+ * If you set <tt>$traversable</tt> to <tt>true</tt>, the visitor will
+ * nevertheless try to find metadata for the collection and validate its
+ * constraints. If no such metadata is found, the visitor ignores that and
+ * only iterates the collection.
+ *
+ * If you don't set <tt>$traversable</tt> to <tt>true</tt> and the visitor
+ * does not find metadata for the given value, it will fail with an
+ * exception.
+ *
+ * @param mixed $value The value to validate
+ * @param string $group The validation group to validate
+ * @param string $propertyPath The current property path in the validation graph
+ * @param bool $traverse Whether to traverse the value if it is traversable
+ * @param bool $deep Whether to traverse nested traversable values recursively
+ *
+ * @throws Exception\NoSuchMetadataException If no metadata can be found for
+ * the given value.
+ */
+ public function validate($value, $group, $propertyPath, $traverse = false, $deep = false);
+
+ /**
+ * Validates a value against the constraints defined in some metadata.
+ *
+ * This method implements the Visitor design pattern. See also
+ * {@link ValidationVisitorInterface}.
+ *
+ * @param MetadataInterface $metadata The metadata holding the constraints
+ * @param mixed $value The value to validate
+ * @param string $group The validation group to validate
+ * @param string $propertyPath The current property path in the validation graph
+ */
+ public function visit(MetadataInterface $metadata, $value, $group, $propertyPath);
+}