/*
 * Copyright (c) 2014 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.yangtools.yang.data.api.schema;

import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.data.api.YangInstanceIdentifier.NodeWithValue;

/**
 * Leaf node with multiplicity 0...n. Leaf node has a value, but no child nodes in the data tree, schema for leaf node
 * and its value is described by {@link org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.model.api.LeafListSchemaNode}.
 *
 * @param <T> Value type
 */
public interface LeafSetEntryNode<T> extends NormalizedNode<NodeWithValue, T>, ValueNode<NodeWithValue, T> {
    /**
     * Returns {@link NodeWithValue} which identifies this leaf set entry. Returned {@link NodeWithValue} contains same
     * value as this node.
     *
     * <b>Implementation note</b>
     * Invocation of {@link NodeWithValue#getValue()} on returned instance of {@link NodeWithValue} must return the
     * same value as invocation of {@link #getValue()}, such as following condition is always met:
     * {@code true == this.getIdentifier().getValue().equals(this.getValue())}.
     *
     * @return {@link NodeWithValue} which identifies this leaf set entry.
     */
    @Override
    NodeWithValue getIdentifier();
}