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  package org.apache.solr.common;
  
  import java.io.IOException;
  import java.io.InputStream;
  import java.util.List;
  
  /**
   * @since solr 1.3
   */ 
  public interface ResourceLoader
  {
    public InputStream openResource(String resource) throws IOException;
    
    /**
     * Accesses a resource by name and returns the (non comment) lines
     * containing data.
     *
     * <p>
     * A comment line is any line that starts with the character "#"
     * </p>
     *
     * @param resource
     * @return a list of non-blank non-comment lines with whitespace trimmed
     * from front and back.
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public List<String> getLines(String resource) throws IOException;
    
    public Object newInstance(String cname, String ... subpackages);
  }