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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.compress.parallel;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ * Supplies {@link ScatterGatherBackingStore} instances.
+ *
+ * @since 1.10
+ */
+public interface ScatterGatherBackingStoreSupplier {
+    /**
+     * Create a ScatterGatherBackingStore.
+     *
+     * @return a ScatterGatherBackingStore, not null
+     * @throws IOException when something fails
+     */
+    ScatterGatherBackingStore get() throws IOException;
+}