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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 Brocade Communications 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.datastore.node.utils.serialization;
+
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.util.Date;
+
+/**
+ * Interface that provides methods which help in encoding components of a QName.
+ *
+ * @author Thomas Pantelis
+ */
+public interface QNameSerializationContext {
+ int addNamespace(URI namespace);
+
+ int addRevision(Date revision);
+
+ int addLocalName(String localName);
+
+}