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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 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.controller.config.persist.api;
+
+public interface PropertiesProvider {
+ /**
+ * Get property value for given key. Implementation of this interface is allowed to prefix
+ * the key with a namespace.
+ */
+ String getProperty(String key);
+
+ /**
+ * @return prefix + key as used in getProperty method.
+ */
+ String getFullKeyForReporting(String key);
+}