= TranslationsResolver
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Locates and return translations.

This is one of the supporting services that work together to implement the framework's support for i18n, being used by the default implementation xref:refguide:applib:index/services/i18n/TranslationService.adoc[TranslationService] .

== API

[source,java]
.TranslationsResolver.java
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interface TranslationsResolver {
  List<String> readLines(String file)     // <.>
}
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<.> xref:#readLines_String[readLines(String)]
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Reads the lines from the specified "logical" file name.
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== Members

[#readLines_String]
=== readLines(String)

Reads the lines from the specified "logical" file name.

It is the responsibility of xref:refguide:applib:index/services/i18n/TranslationsResolver.adoc[TranslationsResolver] to determine where the file actually resides (the data could be read from a database, for example, rather than an actual file.

include::hooks/TranslationsResolver_010-implementation.adoc[]

include::hooks/TranslationsResolver_020-examples-and-usage.adoc[]
