<?php
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 *
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 * @since         1.0.0
 * @license       http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php MIT License
 */
namespace Cake\Core\Configure;

/**
 * An interface for creating objects compatible with Configure::load()
 */
interface ConfigEngineInterface
{

    /**
     * Read method is used for reading configuration information from sources.
     * These sources can either be static resources like files, or dynamic ones like
     * a database, or other datasource.
     *
     * @param string $key Key to read.
     * @return array An array of data to merge into the runtime configuration
     */
    public function read($key);

    /**
     * Dumps the configure data into source.
     *
     * @param string $key The identifier to write to.
     * @param array $data The data to dump.
     * @return bool True on success or false on failure.
     */
    public function dump($key, array $data);
}
