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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.databroker.actors.dds;
+
+/**
+ * Common interface for client histories and client transactions, which can be aborted immediately without replicating
+ * the effect to the backend. This is needed for abrupt shutdowns.
+ *
+ * Since classes which need to expose this functionality do not need a base class, this is an abstract class and not
+ * an interface -- which allows us to not leak the {@link #localAbort(Throwable)} method.
+ *
+ * @author Robert Varga
+ */
+abstract class LocalAbortable {
+ /**
+ * Immediately abort this object.
+ *
+ * @param cause Failure which caused this abort.
+ */
+ abstract void localAbort(Throwable cause);
+}