<?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;

/**
 * Prepares an object for validation.
 *
 * Concrete implementations of this interface are used by {@link Validator\ContextualValidatorInterface}
 * to initialize objects just before validating them.
 *
 * @author Fabien Potencier <fabien@symfony.com>
 * @author Bernhard Schussek <bschussek@gmail.com>
 */
interface ObjectInitializerInterface
{
    public function initialize(object $object);
}