* * 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 * * @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); }