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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2015 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.messages;
+
+import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.data.api.schema.tree.DataTreeCandidate;
+
+/**
+ * A message about a DataTree having been changed. The message is not
+ * serializable on purpose. For delegating the change across cluster nodes,
+ * this needs to be intercepted by a local agent and forwarded as
+ * a {@link DataTreeDelta}.
+ */
+public final class DataTreeChanged {
+ private final Collection<DataTreeCandidate> changes;
+
+ public DataTreeChanged(final Collection<DataTreeCandidate> changes) {
+ this.changes = Preconditions.checkNotNull(changes);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Return the data changes.
+ *
+ * @return Change events
+ */
+ public Collection<DataTreeCandidate> getChanges() {
+ return changes;
+ }
+}