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 * Copyright (c) 1997, 2018 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 *
 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
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 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
 *
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 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
 */

package com.sun.enterprise.tools.verifier.apiscan.classfile;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * This is loader for ClassFile similar to what ClassLoader is for class in
 * Java.
 *
 * @author [email protected]
 */
public interface ClassFileLoader {
    /**
     * @param externalClassName class name in external form. This is same as
     *                          what is used in java.lang.ClassLoader.load() or
     *                          Class.forName(). It is upto the implementation
     *                          to decide if they want to use caching or not.
     * @return The {@link ClassFile} loaded.
     * @throws IOException if specified class could not be found.
     * @see ClassFile
     */
    ClassFile load(String externalClassName) throws IOException;
}