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 * SARL is an general-purpose agent programming language.
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package io.sarl.api.naming.namespace

import io.sarl.api.naming.name.SarlName

/** 
 * A tool that is able to find a specific type of object from a name into the SRE.
 * Each type of element (agent, behavior, etc.) has a specific and dediciated implementation
 * of finder. Of course, the finder's implementation depends strongly on the SRE implementation
 * itself.
 * 
 * @param  the type of name that is supported by this finder.
 * @param  the type of object that is searching for.
 * @author Stéphane Galland
 * @version api.naming 0.14.0 20241106-161408
 * @mavengroupid io.sarl.sdk
 * @mavenartifactid api.naming
 * @since 0.12
 */
interface INamespaceFinder {

	/** Replies the name scheme supported by this finder. */
	@Pure
	def getScheme : String

	/** Find and replies the object with the given name.
	 * 
	 * @param name the name of the object to search for.
	 * @return the object, or {@code null} if the object is not found.
	 */
	@Pure
	def find(name : N) : O

}