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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2016 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.sal.common.util;
+
+/**
+ * An AutoCloseable that does nothing.
+ *
+ * @author Thomas Pantelis
+ */
+public final class NoopAutoCloseable implements AutoCloseable {
+ public static final NoopAutoCloseable INSTANCE = new NoopAutoCloseable();
+
+ private NoopAutoCloseable() {
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void close() {
+ }
+}