<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

/**

* CakePHP(tm) : Rapid Development Framework (https://cakephp.org)

* Copyright (c) Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (https://cakefoundation.org)

*

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*

* @copyright Copyright (c) Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (https://cakefoundation.org)

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* @since 3.5.0

* @license https://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php MIT License

*/

namespace Cake\Validation;

/**

* Provides methods for managing multiple validators.

*/

interface ValidatorAwareInterface

{

/**

* Returns the validation rules tagged with $name.

*

* If a $name argument has not been provided, the default validator will be returned.

* You can configure your default validator name in a `DEFAULT_VALIDATOR`

* class constant.

*

* @param string|null $name The name of the validation set to return.

* @return \Cake\Validation\Validator

*/

public function getValidator(?string $name = null): Validator;

/**

* This method stores a custom validator under the given name.

*

* @param string $name The name of a validator to be set.

* @param \Cake\Validation\Validator $validator Validator object to be set.

* @return $this

*/

public function setValidator(string $name, Validator $validator);

/**

* Checks whether a validator has been set.

*

* @param string $name The name of a validator.

* @return bool

*/

public function hasValidator(string $name): bool;

}