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+<?php
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ *
+ * @package log4php
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Implement this interface in order to render objects to strings.
+ *
+ * @version $Revision: 1394956 $
+ * @package log4php
+ * @subpackage renderers
+ * @since 0.3
+ */
+interface LoggerRenderer {
+    /**
+     * Renders the entity passed as <var>input</var> to a string.
+     * @param mixed $input The entity to render.
+     * @return string The rendered string.
+     */
+    public function render($input);
+}