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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.datastore.actors.client;
+
+import akka.actor.ActorRef;
+import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;
+import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
+import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
+import javax.annotation.Nullable;
+
+/**
+ * Base behavior attached to {@link AbstractClientActor}. Exposes
+ * @author user
+ *
+ * @param <C> Type of associated context
+ *
+ * @author Robert Varga
+ */
+@Beta
+public abstract class AbstractClientActorBehavior<C extends AbstractClientActorContext> {
+ private final C context;
+
+ AbstractClientActorBehavior(final @Nonnull C context) {
+ // Hidden to prevent outside subclasses. Users instantiated this via ClientActorBehavior
+ this.context = Preconditions.checkNotNull(context);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Return an {@link AbstractClientActorContext} associated with this {@link AbstractClientActor}.
+ *
+ * @return A client actor context instance.
+ */
+ protected final @Nonnull C context() {
+ return context;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Return the persistence identifier associated with this {@link AbstractClientActor}. This identifier should be
+ * used in logging to identify this actor.
+ *
+ * @return Persistence identifier
+ */
+ protected final @Nonnull String persistenceId() {
+ return context.persistenceId();
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Return an {@link ActorRef} of this ClientActor.
+ *
+ * @return
+ */
+ public final @Nonnull ActorRef self() {
+ return context.self();
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Implementation-internal method for handling an incoming command message.
+ *
+ * @param command Command message
+ * @return Behavior which should be used with the next message. Return null if this actor should shut down.
+ */
+ abstract @Nullable AbstractClientActorBehavior<?> onReceiveCommand(@Nonnull Object command);
+
+ /**
+ * Implementation-internal method for handling an incoming recovery message coming from persistence.
+ *
+ * @param recover Recover message
+ * @return Behavior which should be used with the next message. Return null if this actor should shut down.
+ */
+ abstract @Nullable AbstractClientActorBehavior<?> onReceiveRecover(@Nonnull Object recover);
+}