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package org.apache.catalina.valves.rewrite;

/**
 * Interface for user defined lookup/replacement logic that can be defined in
 * a {@code rewrite.config} file by a {@code RewriteMap} directive. Such a map
 * can then be used by a {@code RewriteRule} defined in the same file.
 * <p>
 * An example {@code rewrite.config} file could look like:
 * <pre>
 * RewriteMap uc example.UpperCaseMap
 *
 * RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ ${uc:$1}
 * </pre>
 *
 * One parameter can be optionally appended to the {@code RewriteMap} directive.
 * This could be used &ndash; for example &ndash; to specify a name of a file, that
 * contains a lookup table used by the implementation of the map.
 */
public interface RewriteMap {

    /**
     * Optional parameter that can be defined through the {@code RewriteMap}
     * directive in the {@code rewrite.config} file.
     *
     * @param params the optional parameter
     * @return value is currently ignored
     */
    public String setParameters(String params);

    /**
     * Maps a key to a replacement value.<br>
     * The method is free to return {@code null} to indicate, that the default
     * value from the {@code RewriteRule} directive should be used.
     *
     * @param key used by the actual implementation to generate a mapped value
     * @return mapped value or {@code null}
     */
    public String lookup(String key);
}
