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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.utils;
+
+import org.opendaylight.controller.cluster.access.concepts.MemberName;
+import org.opendaylight.controller.cluster.datastore.identifiers.ShardIdentifier;
+import org.opendaylight.mdsal.dom.api.DOMDataTreeIdentifier;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.data.api.YangInstanceIdentifier;
+
+/**
+ * Utils for encoding prefix shard name.
+ */
+public class ClusterUtils {
+
+ public static ShardIdentifier getShardIdentifier(final MemberName memberName, final DOMDataTreeIdentifier prefix) {
+ return ShardIdentifier
+ .create(getCleanShardName(prefix.getRootIdentifier()), memberName, prefix.getDatastoreType().name());
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Returns an encoded shard name based on the provided path that should doesn't contain characters that cannot be
+ * present in akka actor paths.
+ *
+ * @param path Path on which to base the shard name
+ * @return encoded name that doesn't contain characters that cannot be in actor path.
+ */
+ public static String getCleanShardName(final YangInstanceIdentifier path) {
+ final StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
+ // TODO need a better mapping that includes namespace, but we'll need to cleanup the string beforehand
+ path.getPathArguments().forEach(p -> {
+ builder.append(p.getNodeType().getLocalName());
+ builder.append("!");
+ });
+ return builder.toString();
+ }
+}