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package de.ugoe.cs.cpdp.loader;

import java.io.File;

import weka.core.Instances;

/**
 * Interface for version loaders, i.e., loading of a set of instances from a file
 * 
 * @author Steffen Herbold
 */
public interface SingleVersionLoader {

    /**
     * Loads the instances.
     * 
     * @param file
     *            handle to the file of the instances
     * @return the instances
     */
    Instances load(File file);

    /**
     * Defines a filter for the files to be loaded; only strings that end with the filter are
     * considered.
     * 
     * @param endsWith
     *            string defining the filename filter
     * @return true if a filename shall be considered
     */
    boolean filenameFilter(String endsWith);
}