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package org.xwiki.url;

import org.xwiki.component.annotation.Role;
import org.xwiki.stability.Unstable;

/**
 * Normalize a relative URL. Various implementations can exist, for example one implementation may normalize the passed
 * relative URL into a full absolute {@link java.net.URL} object. Another implementation may simply prefix the passed
 * relative URL with a Servlet Container's webapp name (aka application context name). Note that in general the
 * implementations will depends on the Container in which XWiki is executing (eg Servlet Container).
 *
 * @param <T> the type of object to return (eg {@link ExtendedURL}, {@link java.net.URL})
 * @version $Id$
 * @since 6.1M2
 */
@Role
@Unstable
public interface URLNormalizer<T>
{
    /**
     * @param partialURL the partial URL to normalize
     * @return the normalized URL, what is done depends on the implementation
     */
    T normalize(ExtendedURL partialURL);
}

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