Interface Salient\Contract\Core\ProviderContextInterface

Apply a container to the context

Push the entity propagating the context onto the stack

Note that although the same entity may be passed to both {@see ProviderContextInterface::push()} and {@see ProviderContextInterface::withParent()} (e.g. when a hierarchy is being populated from a root entity), they serve different purposes.

Example: a Post object would push() itself onto the entity stack to retrieve a User instance for its Author property, but a Staff object would push() itself onto the entity stack to retrieve Staff instances for its DirectReports property, and pass itself to withParent() as the parent (a.k.a. manager) of those Staff.

Pushing an entity that implements {@see HasId} onto the stack implicitly adds its unique identifier to the context as a value with name <entity_basename>_id if {@see HasId::getId()} returns a value other than null.

Apply a value to the context

Apply a parent entity to the context

Apply the current payload's array key conformity to the context

Get the entities responsible for propagating this context

Get the entity responsible for the most recent propagation of this context

Get the parent entity applied to the context

Get a value previously applied to the context

Returns null if no value for $name has been applied to the context.

True if a value was previously applied to the context

Get the current payload's array key conformity