2 * Copyright (c) 2013 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others. All rights reserved.
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4 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
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5 * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
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6 * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
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8 package org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.api;
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10 import org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.api.Broker.ConsumerSession;
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14 * Session-specific instance of the broker functionality.
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17 * BrokerService is marker interface for infrastructure services provided by the
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18 * SAL. These services are session-specific, each {@link Provider} and
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19 * {@link Consumer} usually has own instance of the service with it's own
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23 * The consumer's (or provider's) instance of specific service could be obtained
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24 * by invoking {@link ConsumerSession#getService(Class)} method on session
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25 * assigned to the consumer.
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28 * {@link BrokerService} and {@link Provider} may seem similar, but provider
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29 * provides YANG model-based functionality and {@link BrokerService} exposes the
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30 * necessary supporting functionality to implement specific functionality of
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31 * YANG and to reuse it in the development of {@link Consumer}s and
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32 * {@link Provider}s.
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36 public interface BrokerService {
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38 void closeSession();
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