2 * Copyright (c) 2013 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others. All rights reserved.
4 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
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6 * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
8 package org.opendaylight.controller.sal.binding.api;
11 * Session-specific instance of the broker functionality.
14 * BindingAwareService is marker interface for infrastructure services provided
15 * by the SAL. These services are session-specific, each
16 * {@link BindingAwareConsumer} and {@link BindingAwareProvider} usually has own
17 * instance of the service with it's own context.
20 * The consumer's (or provider's) instance of specific service could be obtained
21 * by invoking {@link org.opendaylight.controller.sal.binding.api.BindingAwareBroker.ConsumerContext#getSALService(Class)} method on session
22 * assigned to the consumer.
25 * {@link org.opendaylight.controller.sal.binding.api.BindingAwareBroker.ConsumerContext} and {@link BindingAwareProvider} may seem
26 * similar, but provider provides YANG model-based functionality and
27 * {@link BindingAwareProvider} exposes the necessary supporting functionality
28 * to implement specific functionality of YANG and to reuse it in the
29 * development of {@link BindingAwareConsumer}s and {@link BindingAwareProvider}s.
31 public interface BindingAwareService {