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package org.modeshape.common.text;
import org.modeshape.common.annotation.Immutable;
/**
* Interface for components that can encode text. This is the counterpart to {@link TextDecoder}.
*
* @see TextDecoder
*/
@Immutable
public interface TextEncoder {
/**
* Returns the encoded version of a string.
*
* @param text the text with characters that are to be encoded.
* @return the text with the characters encoded as required, or null if the supplied text is null
* @see TextDecoder#decode(String)
*/
public String encode( String text );
}