* <p>
     * The patterns follow the rules of
     * <a href="https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/java_testing.html#test_filtering">test filtering</a>.
     *
     * @param pattern the pattern to select tests.
     * @return this
     */
    TestSpec includePattern(String pattern);

    /**

// patterns that we might need to.
func (idx *routingIndex) possiblyConflictingPatterns(pat *pattern, f func(*pattern) error) (err error) {
	// Terminology:
	//   dollar pattern: one ending in "{$}"
	//   multi pattern: one ending in a trailing slash or "{x...}" wildcard
	//   ordinary pattern: neither of the above

	// apply f to all the pats, stopping on error.
	apply := func(pats []*pattern) error {
		if err != nil {

        return Pattern.compile(acceptNamePattern);
    }

    private Pattern toControlRegexPattern(String pattern) {
        pattern = pattern.replaceAll("\\.", "\\\\.");

        // Creates a control regexp pattern where extra revision tokens _must_ have the same value as the original one
        String acceptNamePattern = pattern.replaceFirst("\\[revision]", "(.+)")
            .replaceAll("\\[revision]", "\1");

	t.init()
	return parseFS(t, fsys, patterns)
}

func parseFS(t *Template, fsys fs.FS, patterns []string) (*Template, error) {
	var filenames []string
	for _, pattern := range patterns {
		list, err := fs.Glob(fsys, pattern)
		if err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		if len(list) == 0 {

               "either native MLIR legalization, or TF2XLA fallback "
               "legalzation, with a preference toward TF2XLA.";
  } else if (tf2xla_fallback_device_type) {
    VLOG(1) << "TF to XLA legalization patterns include all native patterns "
               "and TF2XLA fallback patterns.";
  } else {
    VLOG(1) << "TF to XLA legalization patterns are native patterns only.";
  }

        builder.setLayoutType("Pattern");
        builder.setM2Compatible(m2compatible);

        for (String pattern : artifactPatterns) {
            builder.addArtifactPattern(pattern);
            builder.addArtifactResource(baseUri, pattern);
        }

        for (String pattern : ivyPatterns) {
            builder.addIvyPattern(pattern);
        }

        for (TestPattern pattern : patterns) {
            if (pattern.matchesClass(fullQualifiedName)) {
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

    private boolean mayMatchClass(List<TestPattern> patterns, String fullQualifiedName) {
        for (TestPattern pattern : patterns) {

	// If n is an interior node (which means it has a nil pattern),
	// then we failed to match.
	if path == "" {
		if n.pattern == nil {
			return nil, nil
		}
		return n, matches
	}
	// Get the first segment of path.
	seg, rest := firstSegment(path)
	// First try matching against patterns that have a literal for this position.
	// We know by construction that such patterns are more specific than those

        String patterns = System.getProperty("package.cycle.exclude.patterns");
        return Arrays.stream(patterns.split(","))
            .map(String::trim);
    }

    private static Set<String> ignoredPackagesForCycles() {
        return excludePatterns()
            .filter(pattern -> !isClassNamePattern(pattern))
            .map(pattern -> pattern.replace("/**", ".."))

     * Test name patterns can be appended via {@link #excludeTestsMatching(String)} or set via
     * {@link #setExcludePatterns(String...)}.
     *
     * @return included test name patterns
     * @since 5.0
     */
    @Input
    Set<String> getExcludePatterns();

    /**