3 * Copyright (c) 2013 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others. All rights reserved.
5 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
6 * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
7 * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
10 package org.opendaylight.controller.sal.utils;
12 import org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.Node;
15 * This interface defines the methods to be called when looking up custom node types
19 public interface INodeFactory {
21 * Method to get custom node types from protocol plugins
24 * {@Link org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.Node} type
27 * {@Link org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.Node} ID
29 * @return the custom {@Link
30 * org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.Node}
32 public Node fromString(String nodeType, String nodeId);