* * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE * file that was distributed with this source code. */ namespace Symfony\Component\Validator; /** * A violation of a constraint that happened during validation. * * For each constraint that fails during validation one or more violations are * created. The violations store the violation message, the path to the failing * element in the validation graph and the root element that was originally * passed to the validator. For example, take the following graph: * * (Person)---(firstName: string) * \ * (address: Address)---(street: string) * * If the Person object is validated and validation fails for the * "firstName" property, the generated violation has the Person * instance as root and the property path "firstName". If validation fails * for the "street" property of the related Address instance, the root * element is still the person, but the property path is "address.street". * * @author Bernhard Schussek */ interface ConstraintViolationInterface { /** * Returns the violation message. */ public function getMessage(): string|\Stringable; /** * Returns the raw violation message. * * The raw violation message contains placeholders for the parameters * returned by {@link getParameters}. Typically you'll pass the * message template and parameters to a translation engine. */ public function getMessageTemplate(): string; /** * Returns the parameters to be inserted into the raw violation message. * * @return array a possibly empty list of parameters indexed by the names * that appear in the message template * * @see getMessageTemplate() */ public function getParameters(): array; /** * Returns a number for pluralizing the violation message. * * For example, the message template could have different translation based * on a parameter "choices": * * * * This method returns the value of the parameter for choosing the right * pluralization form (in this case "choices"). */ public function getPlural(): ?int; /** * Returns the root element of the validation. * * @return mixed The value that was passed originally to the validator when * the validation was started. Because the validator traverses * the object graph, the value at which the violation occurs * is not necessarily the value that was originally validated. */ public function getRoot(): mixed; /** * Returns the property path from the root element to the violation. * * @return string The property path indicates how the validator reached * the invalid value from the root element. If the root * element is a Person instance with a property * "address" that contains an Address instance * with an invalid property "street", the generated property * path is "address.street". Property access is denoted by * dots, while array access is denoted by square brackets, * for example "addresses[1].street". */ public function getPropertyPath(): string; /** * Returns the value that caused the violation. * * @return mixed the invalid value that caused the validated constraint to * fail */ public function getInvalidValue(): mixed; /** * Returns a machine-digestible error code for the violation. */ public function getCode(): ?string; }