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/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2014 Dirk Fauth and others.
*
* This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
*
* Contributors:
* Dirk Fauth <dirk.fauth@googlemail.com> - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.e4.core.services.nls;
/**
* Supplier interface that is used to bind a method of an object (e.g. a SWT
* control) to a field of a Messages instance. Typically the instance field that
* contains the localization value will be returned.
* <p>
* This is a functional interface whose functional method is {@link #get()}.
* </p>
* <p>
* When updating to Java 8 this interface can be removed and replaced with the
* general <code>java.util.function.Supplier</code>
* </p>
*
* @since 2.0
*
*/
public interface MessageSupplier {
/**
*
* @return The value this {@link MessageSupplier} holds.
*/
String get();
}