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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2022 PANTHEON.tech, s.r.o. 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.generator.impl.tree;
+
+import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNull;
+import org.opendaylight.mdsal.binding.generator.impl.reactor.AbstractExplicitGenerator;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.concepts.Identifiable;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.common.QName;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.model.api.stmt.SchemaTreeEffectiveStatement;
+
+/**
+ * An object reflecting a YANG {@code schema node}.
+ *
+ * @param <S> Concrete {@link SchemaTreeEffectiveStatement} type
+ * @param <G> Concrete {@link AbstractExplicitGenerator} type
+ */
+// FIXME: do not reference Generator once we have the codegen and runtime views well-defined
+public interface SchemaTreeChild<S extends SchemaTreeEffectiveStatement<?>,
+ G extends AbstractExplicitGenerator<S> & SchemaTreeChild<S, G>> extends Identifiable<QName> {
+ @Override
+ default QName getIdentifier() {
+ return statement().argument();
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Return the effective YANG statement being represented by this object.
+ *
+ * @return A YANG statement
+ */
+ @NonNull S statement();
+
+ /**
+ * Return the generator responsible for handling the binding type view of this statement. Note that the statement
+ * returned by {@code generator().statement()} may differ from the statement returned by {@link #statement()}.
+ *
+ * @return Underlying binding generator
+ * @throws IllegalStateException if the generator has not been resolved yet
+ */
+ @NonNull G generator();
+}