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The role of the (eZ\Publish\Core\MVC\Symfony\)View\Manager is to select the right template for displaying a given content item or location. It aggregates objects called content and location view providers which respectively implement eZ\Publish\Core\MVC\Symfony\View\Provider\Content and eZ\Publish\Core\MVC\Symfony\View\Provider\Location interfaces.
Each time a content item is to be displayed through the Content\ViewController, the View\Manager iterates over the registered content or location View\Provider objects and calls getView().
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