2 * Copyright (c) 2013 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.concepts;
11 * Builder object which produces a product.
13 * @param <P> Product of builder
15 * @author Tony Tkacik <ttkacik@cisco.com>
17 public interface Builder<P> extends Mutable {
19 * Returns instance of the product. Multiple calls to this method are not required to return same instance if
20 * the state of the builder has changed.
22 * @return A newly-built instance
23 * @throws IllegalStateException if the builder's state is not sufficiently initialized