ResourcePatternResolver.java

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package com.freetmp.common.resource;

import java.io.IOException;

public interface ResourcePatternResolver extends ResourceLoader {

	/**
	 * Pseudo URL prefix for all matching resources from the class path: "classpath*:"
	 * 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.
	 */
	String CLASSPATH_ALL_URL_PREFIX = "classpath*:";

	/**
	 * Resolve the given location pattern into 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 Resource objects
	 * @throws IOException in case of I/O errors
	 */
	Resource[] getResources(String locationPattern) throws IOException;

}