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package org.apache.dubbo.registry.client.metadata;

import org.apache.dubbo.common.URL;
import org.apache.dubbo.common.extension.SPI;
import org.apache.dubbo.registry.client.ServiceInstance;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * Used to build metadata service url from ServiceInstance.
 *
 * @since 2.7.5
 */
@SPI
public interface MetadataServiceURLBuilder {

    /**
     * Build the {@link URL URLs} from the specified {@link ServiceInstance}
     *
     * @param serviceInstance {@link ServiceInstance}
     * @return TODO, usually, we generate one metadata url from one instance. There's no scenario to return a metadata url list.
     */
    List<URL> build(ServiceInstance serviceInstance);
}
