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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2016 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.cluster.dom.api;
+
+import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;
+
+/**
+ * Enumeration of possible shard leader locations relative to the local node.
+ *
+ * @author Robert Varga
+ */
+@Beta
+public enum LeaderLocation {
+ /**
+ * The leader is co-located on this node.
+ */
+ LOCAL,
+ /**
+ * The leader is resident on a different node.
+ */
+ REMOTE,
+ /**
+ * The leader is residence is currently unknown. This is a transition state during a leader failure, which can be
+ * caused by a network partition. This state is not observed during a leadership transfer vote initiated by
+ * the leader shutting down.
+ */
+ UNKNOWN,
+}