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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2018 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.yang.model.api.stmt;
+
+import static java.util.Objects.requireNonNull;
+import static org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.model.api.stmt.DefaultMethodHelpers.filterOptional;
+
+import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;
+import java.util.Optional;
+import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNull;
+import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNullByDefault;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.common.QName;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.model.api.meta.DeclaredStatement;
+
+/**
+ * Interface implemented by all {@link SchemaTreeAwareEffectiveStatement}s which can contain a {@code data tree} child.
+ *
+ * @param <A> Argument type
+ * @param <D> Class representing declared version of this statement.
+ * @author Robert Varga
+ */
+@Beta
+public interface DataTreeAwareEffectiveStatement<A, D extends DeclaredStatement<A>>
+ extends SchemaTreeAwareEffectiveStatement<A, D> {
+ /**
+ * Namespace of {@code data node}s. This is a subtree of {@link SchemaTreeAwareEffectiveStatement.Namespace} in that
+ * all data nodes are also schema nodes. The structure of the tree is different, though, as {@code choice}
+ * and {@code case} statements are glossed over and they do not contribute to the tree hierarchy -- only their
+ * children do.
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * This corresponds to the {@code data tree} view of a YANG-defined data.
+ *
+ * @param <T> Child statement type
+ */
+ @NonNullByDefault
+ abstract class Namespace<T extends DataTreeEffectiveStatement<?>> extends EffectiveStatementNamespace<T> {
+ private Namespace() {
+ // Should never be instantiated
+ }
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Find a {@code data tree} child {@link DataTreeEffectiveStatement}, as identified by its QName argument.
+ *
+ * @param qname Child identifier
+ * @return Data tree child, or empty
+ * @throws NullPointerException if {@code qname} is null
+ */
+ default @NonNull Optional<DataTreeEffectiveStatement<?>> findDataTreeNode(final @NonNull QName qname) {
+ return get(Namespace.class, requireNonNull(qname));
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Find a {@code data tree} child {@link DataTreeEffectiveStatement}, as identified by its QName argument.
+ *
+ * @param <E> Effective substatement type
+ * @param type Effective substatement class
+ * @param qname Child identifier
+ * @return Data tree child, or empty
+ * @throws NullPointerException if any argument is null
+ */
+ default <E> @NonNull Optional<E> findDataTreeNode(final Class<E> type, final @NonNull QName qname) {
+ return filterOptional(type, findDataTreeNode(qname));
+ }
+}