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  package com.alibaba.nacos.common.packagescan.resource;
  
  import java.io.IOException;
  
  /**
   * Copy from https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework.git, with less modifications
   * Strategy interface for resolving a location pattern (for example,
   * an Ant-style path pattern) into {@link Resource} objects.
   *
   * <p>This is an extension to the {@link ResourceLoader}
   * interface. A passed-in {@code ResourceLoader} (for example, an
   * can be checked whether it implements this extended interface too.
   *
   * <p>{@link PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver} is a standalone implementation
   * that is usable outside an {@code ApplicationContext}, also used by
   * properties.
   *
   * <p>Can be used with any sort of location pattern (e.g. "/WEB-INF/*-context.xml"):
   * Input patterns have to match the strategy implementation. This interface just
   * specifies the conversion method rather than a specific pattern format.
   *
   * <p>This interface also suggests a new resource prefix "classpath*:" for all
   * matching resources from the class path. Note that the resource location is
   * expected to be a path without placeholders in this case (e.g. "/beans.xml");
   * JAR files or different directories in the class path can contain multiple files
   * of the same name.
   *
   * @author Juergen Hoeller
   * @see Resource
   * @see ResourceLoader
   * @since 1.0.2
   */
  public interface ResourcePatternResolver extends ResourceLoader {
  
      /**
       * Pseudo URL prefix for all matching resources from the class path: "classpath*:"
       *
       * <p>This differs from ResourceLoader's classpath URL prefix in that it
       * retrieves all matching resources for a given name (e.g. "/beans.xml"),
       * for example in the root of all deployed JAR files.
       *
       * @see ResourceLoader#CLASSPATH_URL_PREFIX
       */
      String CLASSPATH_ALL_URL_PREFIX = "classpath*:";
  
      /**
       * Resolve the given location pattern into {@code Resource} objects.
       *
       * <p>Overlapping resource entries that point to the same physical
       * resource should be avoided, as far as possible. The result should
       * have set semantics.
       *
       * @param locationPattern the location pattern to resolve
       * @return the corresponding {@code Resource} objects
       * @throws IOException in case of I/O errors
       */
      Resource[] getResources(String locationPattern) throws IOException;
  
  }
  