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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.
+
+
+class Loader(object):
+    """
+    Base class for ARIA loaders.
+
+    Loaders extract a document by consuming a document source.
+
+    Though the extracted document is often textual (a string or string-like
+    data), loaders may provide any format.
+    """
+
+    def open(self):
+        pass
+
+    def close(self):
+        pass
+
+    def load(self):
+        raise NotImplementedError