/*
 * Copyright (c) 2015 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others.  All rights reserved.
 *
 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
 * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
 * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 */
package org.opendaylight.mdsal.binding.dom.codec.api;

import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;
import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.binding.BindingObject;

/**
 * Caching variant of Binding to Normalized Node codec. Caching may introduce performance penalty to serialization and
 * deserialization but may decrease use of heap for repetitive objects.
 *
 * @param <T> Binding representtion of data
 */
@Beta
public interface BindingNormalizedNodeCachingCodec<T extends BindingObject> extends BindingNormalizedNodeCodec<T>,
        AutoCloseable {
    /**
     * Invoking close will invalidate this codec and any of its child codecs and will invalidate cache. Any subsequent
     * calls to this codec will fail with {@link IllegalStateException} thrown.
     */
    @Override
    void close();
}