+/*
+ * 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.yangtools.yang.model.api.meta;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
+import javax.annotation.Nullable;
+/**
+ * Represents declared statement
+ *
+ * @param <A> Argument type ({@link Void} if statement does not have argument.)
+ */
+public interface DeclaredStatement<A> extends ModelStatement<A> {
+
+ /**
+ *
+ * Returns statement argument as was present in original source.
+ *
+ * @return statement argument as was present in original source or null, if statement does not take argument.
+ */
+ @Nullable String rawArgument();
+
+ /**
+ *
+ * Returns collection of explicitly declared child statements, while preserving its original
+ * ordering from original source.
+ *
+ * @return Collection of statements, which were explicitly declared in
+ * source of model.
+ */
+ @Nonnull Collection<? extends DeclaredStatement<?>> declaredSubstatements();
+
+}