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Diffa Participant Support provides tools for implementing Diffa participants in Java (and other JVM languages)

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/**
 * Copyright (C) 2010-2011 LShift Ltd.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package net.lshift.diffa.participant.content;

/**
 * Handler interface that can be implemented in client libraries to allow for content queries.
 */
public interface ContentParticipantHandler {
  /**
   * Retrieve the content for a given identifier.
   * @param identifier the entity identifier.
   * @return the entity content, or null if the entity is unknown.
   */
  String retrieveContent(String identifier);
}