// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;

namespace Microsoft.Extensions.Localization
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Represents a service that provides localized strings.
    /// </summary>
    public interface IStringLocalizer
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the string resource with the given name.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="name">The name of the string resource.</param>
        /// <returns>The string resource as a <see cref="LocalizedString"/>.</returns>
        LocalizedString this[string name] { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the string resource with the given name and formatted with the supplied arguments.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="name">The name of the string resource.</param>
        /// <param name="arguments">The values to format the string with.</param>
        /// <returns>The formatted string resource as a <see cref="LocalizedString"/>.</returns>
        LocalizedString this[string name, params object[] arguments] { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets all string resources.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="includeParentCultures">
        /// A <see cref="System.Boolean"/> indicating whether to include strings from parent cultures.
        /// </param>
        /// <returns>The strings.</returns>
        IEnumerable<LocalizedString> GetAllStrings(bool includeParentCultures);
    }
}
