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+/*
+ * 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.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNull;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.model.api.DocumentedNode.WithStatus;
+
+/**
+ * Subtree codec specific to model subtree between Java Binding and NormalizedNode.
+ */
+@Beta
+public interface BindingCodecTreeNode {
+
+ /**
+ * Return the schema node associated with this node.
+ *
+ * @return A schema node.
+ */
+ @NonNull WithStatus getSchema();
+}