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.core.api.data;
12 import org.opendaylight.controller.sal.common.DataStoreIdentifier;
13 import org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.api.Provider;
14 import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.common.RpcResult;
15 import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.data.api.CompositeNode;
19 * {@link Provider}-supplied Validator of the data.
22 * The registration could be done by :
24 * <li>returning an instance of implementation in the return value of
25 * {@link Provider#getProviderFunctionality()}
26 * <li>passing an instance of implementation and {@link DataStoreIdentifier} rpc
28 * {@link DataProviderService#addValidator(DataStoreIdentifier, DataValidator)}
31 * @deprecated Replaced by {@link org.opendaylight.controller.md.sal.common.api.data.AsyncConfigurationCommitHandler}
35 public interface DataValidator extends Provider.ProviderFunctionality {
38 * A set of Data Stores supported by implementation.
40 * The set of {@link DataStoreIdentifier}s which identifies target data
41 * stores which are supported by this implementation. This set is used, when
42 * {@link Provider} is registered to the SAL, to register and expose the
43 * validation functionality to affected data stores.
45 * @return Set of Data Store identifiers
47 Set<DataStoreIdentifier> getSupportedDataStores();
50 * Performs validation on supplied data.
54 * @return Validation result. The
55 * <code>{@link RpcResult#isSuccessful()} == true</code> if the data
56 * passed validation, otherwise contains list of errors.
58 RpcResult<Void> validate(CompositeNode toValidate);