+
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 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.controller.sal.utils;
+
+import org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.Node;
+import org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.NodeConnector;
+
+/**
+ * @file INodeFactory.java
+ *
+ * @brief Define the interface to be called when looking up custom node types
+ *
+ */
+
+public interface INodeConnectorFactory {
+ /**
+ * Method to get custom NodeConnector types from protocol plugins
+ *
+ */
+ public NodeConnector fromStringNoNode(String typeStr, String IDStr,
+ Node n);
+}