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9 package org.opendaylight.controller.cluster.datastore.shardstrategy;
11 import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.data.api.InstanceIdentifier;
14 * The role of ShardStrategy is to figure out which Shards a given piece of data belongs to
16 public interface ShardStrategy {
18 * Find the name of the shard in which the data pointed to by the specified path belongs in
20 * @param path The location of the data in the logical tree
23 String findShard(InstanceIdentifier path);