001 /* 002 * JBoss DNA (http://www.jboss.org/dna) 003 * See the COPYRIGHT.txt file distributed with this work for information 004 * regarding copyright ownership. Some portions may be licensed 005 * to Red Hat, Inc. under one or more contributor license agreements. 006 * See the AUTHORS.txt file in the distribution for a full listing of 007 * individual contributors. 008 * 009 * JBoss DNA is free software. Unless otherwise indicated, all code in JBoss DNA 010 * is licensed to you under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 011 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of 012 * the License, or (at your option) any later version. 013 * 014 * JBoss DNA is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 015 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 016 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 017 * Lesser General Public License for more details. 018 * 019 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 020 * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free 021 * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 022 * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. 023 */ 024 package org.jboss.dna.common.i18n; 025 026 import java.net.URL; 027 import java.util.Locale; 028 029 /** 030 * A repository of localized property files used by the {@link I18n internationalization framework}. 031 * @author Randall Hauch 032 */ 033 public interface LocalizationRepository { 034 035 /** 036 * Obtain the URL to the properties file containing the localized messages given the supplied bundle name. This method is 037 * responsible for searching to find the most appropriate localized messages given the locale, but does not need to search 038 * using the {@link Locale#getDefault() default locale} (as that is done by the {@link I18n#text(Object...) calling} method. 039 * @param bundleName the name of the bundle of properties; never null 040 * @param locale the locale for which the properties file URL is desired 041 * @return the URL to the properties file containing the localized messages for the named bundle, or null if no such bundle 042 * could be found 043 */ 044 URL getLocalizationBundle( String bundleName, Locale locale ); 045 046 }