001 /* 002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 003 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 004 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 005 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 006 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 007 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 008 * 009 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 010 * 011 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 012 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 013 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 014 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 015 * limitations under the License. 016 */ 017 package org.apache.commons.discovery; 018 019 020 /** 021 * Interface representing a mapping 022 * from a set of source resource names 023 * to a resultant set of resource names. 024 * 025 * @author Richard A. Sitze 026 * @author Costin Manolache 027 */ 028 public interface ResourceNameDiscover 029 { 030 /** 031 * Locate names of resources that are bound to <code>resourceName</code>. 032 * 033 * @return ResourceNameIterator 034 */ 035 public ResourceNameIterator findResourceNames(String resourceName); 036 037 /** 038 * Locate names of resources that are bound to <code>resourceNames</code>. 039 * 040 * @return ResourceNameIterator 041 */ 042 public ResourceNameIterator findResourceNames(ResourceNameIterator resourceNames); 043 }