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 *
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 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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 *
 * Contributors:
 *     bstefanescu
 *
 * $Id$
 */

package org.eclipse.ecr.web.rendering.api;

import java.io.Writer;
import java.util.ResourceBundle;

/**
 * @author <a href="mailto:bs@nuxeo.com">Bogdan Stefanescu</a>
 *
 */
public interface RenderingEngine {

    void setMessageBundle(ResourceBundle messages);

    ResourceBundle getMessageBundle();

    void setResourceLocator(ResourceLocator locator);

    ResourceLocator getResourceLocator();

    void setSharedVariable(String key, Object value);

    /**
     * Starts the rendering for the given document context.
     *
     * @throws RenderingException
     */
    void render(String template, Object input, Writer writer)
    throws RenderingException;

    public View getView(String path);

    public View getView(String path, Object object);

    public void flushCache();

}