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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 container for validation metadata of a property.
*
* What exactly you define as "property" is up to you. The validator expects
* implementations of {@link MetadataInterface} that contain constraints and
* optionally a list of named properties that also have constraints (and may
* have further sub properties). Such properties are mapped by implementations
* of this interface.
*
* @author Bernhard Schussek <bschussek@gmail.com>
*
* @see MetadataInterface
*/
interface PropertyMetadataInterface extends MetadataInterface
{
/**
* Returns the name of the property.
*
* @return string The property name.
*/
public function getPropertyName();
/**
* Extracts the value of the property from the given container.
*
* @param mixed $containingValue The container to extract the property value from.
*
* @return mixed The value of the property.
*/
public function getPropertyValue($containingValue);
}