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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) MuleSoft, Inc.  All rights reserved.  http://www.mulesoft.com
+ * The software in this package is published under the terms of the CPAL v1.0
+ * license, a copy of which has been included with this distribution in the
+ * LICENSE.txt file.
+ */
+package org.mule.runtime.api.metadata;
+
+import org.mule.metadata.api.ListableTypeLoader;
+import org.mule.runtime.api.exception.MuleException;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+/**
+ * Interface to retrieve all the available {@link ListableTypeLoader} instances, or by a particular prefix.
+ *
+ * @since 1.5.0
+ */
+public interface ListableTypeLoadersRepository {
+
+  /**
+   * Retrieves all the available {@link ListableTypeLoader} for the different extensions, classified by the extension prefix. If
+   * you need a particular {@link ListableTypeLoader}, you should use {@link #getTypeLoaderByPrefix(String)} instead, so you take
+   * advantage of a possible optimization that only builds the {@link ListableTypeLoader} lazily, when it's requested.
+   *
+   * @return all the available {@link ListableTypeLoader} for the different extensions, classified by the extension prefix.
+   */
+  Map<String, ListableTypeLoader> getAllTypeLoaders();
+
+  /**
+   * Retrieves a particular {@link ListableTypeLoader} for the passed {@code prefix}.
+   *
+   * @param prefix the extension's prefix.
+   * @return the corresponding instance of {@link ListableTypeLoader}.
+   * @throws MuleException if a type loader couldn't be found for the passed prefix.
+   */
+  ListableTypeLoader getTypeLoaderByPrefix(String prefix) throws MuleException;
+}