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Central module for Tapestry, containing interfaces to the Java Servlet API and all core services and components.

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package org.apache.tapestry5.services.messages;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.Messages;
import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.Resource;
import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.util.CaseInsensitiveMap;

/**
 * Used when constructing a component's {@link Messages} object. Responsible for reading the
 * contents of an individual {@link Resource}.
 * 
 * @since 5.2.0
 */
public interface PropertiesFileParser
{
    /**
     * Read the contents of the file (which is expected to exist) and return it as
     * a Map of string keys and values (as {@link CaseInsensitiveMap} should be used. The implementation should not
     * attempt to cache any values (caching occurs at a higher level, as does reload logic).
     */
    Map parsePropertiesFile(Resource resource) throws IOException;
}