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+package org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser;
+
+/*
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+import org.apache.velocity.Template;
+import org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeServices;
+import org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Directive;
+import org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode;
+
+import java.io.Reader;
+
+public interface Parser
+{
+    RuntimeServices getRuntimeServices();
+    SimpleNode parse(Reader reader, Template template) throws ParseException;
+    void resetCurrentTemplate();
+    Template getCurrentTemplate();
+    Token getToken(int index);
+    boolean isDirective(String macro);
+    Directive getDirective(String directive);
+    void ReInit(CharStream stream);
+
+    char dollar();
+    char hash();
+    char at();
+    char asterisk();
+
+    default String lineComment()
+    {
+        return String.valueOf(hash()) + hash();
+    }
+
+    default String blockComment()
+    {
+        return String.valueOf(hash()) + asterisk();
+    }
+}