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*
* This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
* terms of the Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0, which is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php.
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
*/
package com.sun.xml.ws.security.opt.impl.util;
/**
* A local string manager.
* This interface describes the access to i18n messages for classes that need
* them.
*/
public interface LocalStringManager {
/**
* Get a localized string.
* Strings are stored in a single property file per package named
* LocalStrings[_locale].properties. Starting from the class of the
* caller, we walk up the class hierarchy until we find a package
* resource bundle that provides a value for the requested key.
*
* This simplifies access to resources, at the cost of checking for
* the resource bundle of several classes upon each call. However, due
* to the caching performed by ResourceBundle this seems
* reasonable.
*
*
Due to that, sub-classes must make sure they don't
* have conflicting resource naming.
* @param callerClass The object making the call, to allow per-package
* resource bundles
* @param key The name of the resource to fetch
* @param defaultValue The default return value if not found
* @return The localized value for the resource
*/
public String getLocalString(
Class callerClass,
String key,
String defaultValue
);
/**
* Get a local string for the caller and format the arguments accordingly.
* @param callerClass The caller (to walk through its class hierarchy)
* @param key The key to the local format string
* @param defaultFormat The default format if not found in the resources
* @param arguments The set of arguments to provide to the formatter
* @return A formatted localized string
*/
public String getLocalString(
Class callerClass,
String key,
String defaultFormat,
Object arguments[]
);
public String getLocalString(String key, String defaultValue);
}