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package com.hazelcast.config;
/**
* The ConfigPatternMatcher provides a strategy to match an item name to a configuration pattern.
* <p/>
* It is used on each Config.getXXXConfig() and ClientConfig.getXXXConfig() call for map, list, queue, set, executor, topic,
* semaphore etc., so for example <code>itemName</code> is the name of a map and <code>configPatterns</code> are all defined
* map configurations.
* <p/>
* If no configuration is found by the matcher it should return <tt>null</tt>. In this case the default config will be used
* for this item then. If multiple configurations are found by the matcher a {@link com.hazelcast.config.ConfigurationException}
* should be thrown.
* <p/>
* Since Hazelcast 3.5 the default matcher is {@link com.hazelcast.config.matcher.MatchingPointConfigPatternMatcher}.
*/
public interface ConfigPatternMatcher {
/**
* Returns the best match for an item name out of a list of configuration patterns.
*
* @param configPatterns list of configuration patterns
* @param itemName item name to match
* @return a key of configPatterns which matches the item name or <tt>null</tt> if nothing matches
* @throws ConfigurationException if ambiguous configurations are found
*/
String matches(Iterable<String> configPatterns, String itemName) throws ConfigurationException;
}