001 // Copyright 2008 The Apache Software Foundation
002 //
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014
015 package org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.services;
016
017 import java.net.URL;
018
019 /**
020 * Used by {@link org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.services.ClassNameLocator} to convert URLs from one protocol to another. This
021 * is a hook for supporting OSGi, allowing "bundleresource" and "bundleentry" protocols to be converted to "jar:" or
022 * "file:".
023 */
024 public interface ClasspathURLConverter
025 {
026 /**
027 * Passed a URL provided by {@link ClassLoader#getResources(String)} to check to see if can be converted.
028 *
029 * @param url to check
030 * @return the url, or an equivalent url of type jar: or file:
031 */
032 URL convert(URL url);
033 }