2 * Copyright (c) 2015 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others. All rights reserved.
4 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
5 * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
6 * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
8 package org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.data.jaxen.api;
10 import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNullByDefault;
11 import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.model.api.EffectiveModelContext;
14 * A factory for obtaining {@link XPathSchemaContext}s. This is the primary entry point to an XPath evaluation
15 * implementation. Users are expected to resolve these via their service resolution framework, be it
16 * {@link java.util.ServiceLoader}, OSGi or similar.
19 * Implementations are required to support {@link java.util.ServiceLoader}.
23 public interface XPathSchemaContextFactory {
25 * Create an {@link XPathSchemaContext} based on a {@link EffectiveModelContext}. This effectively binds the
26 * namespaces the user expects to map to YANG schema. The {@link XPathExpression} compilation, relocation and
27 * optimization processes can take advantage of the YANG schema provided.
29 * @param context SchemaContext associated with the resulting {@link XPathSchemaContext}
30 * @return An {@link XPathSchemaContext} instance
32 XPathSchemaContext createContext(EffectiveModelContext context);