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symfony/src/Symfony/Component/Validator/Mapping/MetadataInterface.php

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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\Mapping;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\MetadataInterface as LegacyMetadataInterface;
/**
* A container for validation metadata.
*
* Most importantly, the metadata stores the constraints against which an object
* and its properties should be validated.
*
* Additionally, the metadata stores whether objects should be validated
* against their class' metadata and whether traversable objects should be
* traversed or not.
*
* @since 2.5
* @author Bernhard Schussek <bschussek@gmail.com>
*
* @see CascadingStrategy
* @see TraversalStrategy
*/
interface MetadataInterface extends LegacyMetadataInterface
{
/**
* Returns the strategy for cascading objects.
*
* @return integer The cascading strategy
*
* @see CascadingStrategy
*/
public function getCascadingStrategy();
/**
* Returns the strategy for traversing traversable objects.
*
* @return integer The traversal strategy
*
* @see TraversalStrategy
*/
public function getTraversalStrategy();
}