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+<?php
+
+namespace MediaWiki\Settings\Source;
+
+use MediaWiki\Settings\SettingsBuilderException;
+use Stringable;
+
+/**
+ * A SettingsSource is meant to represent any kind of local or remote store
+ * from which settings can be read, be it a local file, remote URL, database,
+ * etc. It is concerned with reading (and possibly decoding) settings data.
+ *
+ * @since 1.38
+ * @todo mark as stable before the 1.38 release
+ */
+interface SettingsSource extends Stringable {
+	/**
+	 * Loads and returns all settings from this source as an associative
+	 * array.
+	 *
+	 * @return array
+	 * @throws SettingsBuilderException
+	 */
+	public function load(): array;
+}