Raymond | dee0849 | 2015-04-02 10:43:13 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | /* |
| 2 | * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more |
| 3 | * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with |
| 4 | * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. |
| 5 | * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 |
| 6 | * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with |
| 7 | * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at |
| 8 | * |
| 9 | * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 |
| 10 | * |
| 11 | * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software |
| 12 | * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, |
| 13 | * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. |
| 14 | * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and |
| 15 | * limitations under the License. |
| 16 | */ |
| 17 | package org.apache.commons.math.exception.util; |
| 18 | |
| 19 | import java.io.Serializable; |
| 20 | import java.util.Locale; |
| 21 | |
| 22 | /** |
| 23 | * Interface for localizable strings. |
| 24 | * |
| 25 | * @version $Revision: 983921 $ $Date: 2010-08-10 12:46:06 +0200 (mar. 10 août 2010) $ |
| 26 | * @since 2.2 |
| 27 | */ |
| 28 | public interface Localizable extends Serializable { |
| 29 | |
| 30 | /** |
| 31 | * Get the source (non-localized) string. |
| 32 | * @return source string |
| 33 | */ |
| 34 | String getSourceString(); |
| 35 | |
| 36 | /** |
| 37 | * Get the localized string. |
| 38 | * @param locale locale into which to get the string |
| 39 | * @return localized string or the source string if no localized version is available |
| 40 | */ |
| 41 | String getLocalizedString(Locale locale); |
| 42 | |
| 43 | } |