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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2017 Pantheon Technologies, 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.yangtools.rfc8040.model.api;
+
+import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.model.api.ContainerSchemaNode;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.model.api.UnknownSchemaNode;
+
+/**
+ * Represents 'yang-data' extension statement defined in
+ * <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8040#section-8">RFC8040</a>. This statement must appear as a top-level
+ * statement, otherwise it is ignored and does not appear in the final schema context. It must contain exactly one
+ * top-level container node (directly or indirectly via a uses statement).
+ */
+@Beta
+public interface YangDataSchemaNode extends UnknownSchemaNode {
+ /**
+ * Returns container schema node container within this yang-data definition.
+ *
+ * @return container schema node
+ */
+ ContainerSchemaNode getContainerSchemaNode();
+
+ @Override
+ YangDataEffectiveStatement asEffectiveStatement();
+}