diff --git a/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/service/TokenPlaceholderValueResolvingService.java b/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/service/TokenPlaceholderValueResolvingService.java
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+package edu.internet2.tier.shibboleth.admin.ui.service;
+
+/**
+ * Generic API to resolve values from arbitrary tokenized placeholders such as '%{token.placeholder}' etc.
+ *
+ * @author Dmitriy Kopylenko
+ */
+public interface TokenPlaceholderValueResolvingService {
+
+    String resolveValueFromTokenPlaceholder(String tokenPlaceholder);
+}