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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.policy;
+
+import org.opendaylight.controller.cluster.raft.policy.RaftPolicy;
+
+/**
+ * The TwoNodeClusterRaftPolicy is intended to be used in a two node deployment where when one instance
+ * of the controller goes down the other instance is to take over and move the state forward.
+ * When a TwoNodeClusterRaftPolicy is used Raft elections are disabled. This is primarily because we would
+ * need to specify the leader externally. Also since we want one node to continue to function while the other
+ * node is down we would need to apply a modification to the state before consensus occurs.
+ */
+public class TwoNodeClusterRaftPolicy implements RaftPolicy {
+ @Override
+ public boolean automaticElectionsEnabled() {
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public boolean applyModificationToStateBeforeConsensus() {
+ return true;
+ }
+}