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 * $Id: TemplateEngine.java 471756 2006-11-06 15:01:43Z husted $
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package org.apache.struts2.components.template;

import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Any template language which wants to support UI tag templating needs to provide an implementation of this interface
 * to handle rendering the template
 */
public interface TemplateEngine {

    /**
     * Renders the template
     * @param templateContext  context for the given template.
     * @throws Exception is thrown if there is a failure when rendering.
     */
    void renderTemplate(TemplateRenderingContext templateContext) throws Exception;

    /**
     * Get's the properties for the given template.
     *
     * @param template   the template.
     * @return  the properties as key value pairs.
     */
    Map getThemeProps(Template template);

}