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package com.day.util;

/**
 * A HandleExpander is used to expand a globbing pattern to a list
 * of handles, that match the given pattern. This 'expansiion' is done
 * unix-shell-like. for example the pattern /site/* could be expanded
 * to /site/en, /site/fr.
 *
 * @version $Revision: 1.9 $, $Date: 2004-08-22 06:56:09 +0200 (Sun, 22 Aug 2004) $
 * @author tripod
 * @since antbear
 * Audience dev
 */
public interface HandleExpander {

    /**
     * Expand the handles to the given pattern.
     * @param pattern the pattern to match.
     * @return an array of handles that are expanded from the pattern
     */
    public String[] expand(String pattern);
}