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package com.griefcraft.lwc;
/**
* Parses i18n coded strings and also allows dynamic binds such as %msg% where msg is a variable given
*/
public interface MessageParser {
/**
* Retrieve and parse a localized key using the arguments. The arguments are parsed in the format of
* "key1" value1 "key2" value2 ...
*
* @param key
* @param args
* @return
*/
public String parseMessage(String key, Object... args);
}