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 *
 * 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.controller.cluster.raft.messages;

/**
 * An instance of a {@link Payload} class is meant to be used as the Payload for {@link AppendEntries}.
 *
 * <p>
 * When an actor which is derived from RaftActor attempts to persistData it must pass an instance of the Payload class.
 * Similarly when state needs to be applied to the derived RaftActor it will be passed an instance of the Payload class.
 */
public abstract class Payload {
    /**
     * Return the estimate of in-memory size of this payload.
     *
     * @return An estimate of the in-memory size of this payload.
     */
    public abstract int size();
}