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 */ getSourceString()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 */ getLocalizedString(Locale locale)41 String getLocalizedString(Locale locale); 42 43 } 44