Initial opendaylight infrastructure commit!!

[controller.git] / opendaylight / sal / yang-prototype / sal / sal-core-api / src / main / java / org / opendaylight / controller / sal / core / api / Provider.java

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+/*\r
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others.  All rights reserved.\r
+ *\r
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the\r
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,\r
+ * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html\r
+ */\r
+package org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.api;\r
+\r
+import java.util.Collection;\r
+\r
+import org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.api.Broker.ProviderSession;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * \r
+ * Defines the component of controller and supplies additional metadata. A\r
+ * component of the controller or application supplies a concrete implementation\r
+ * of this interface.\r
+ * \r
+ * <p>\r
+ * A user-implemented component (application) which faciliates the SAL and SAL\r
+ * services to access infrastructure services and to provide functionality to\r
+ * {@link Consumer}s and other providers.\r
+ * \r
+ * \r
+ */\r
+public interface Provider {\r
+\r
+    /**\r
+     * Callback signaling initialization of the provider session to the SAL.\r
+     * \r
+     * <p>\r
+     * The provider <b>MUST use the session</b> for all communication with SAL\r
+     * or retrieving SAL infrastructure services.\r
+     * \r
+     * <p>\r
+     * This method is invoked by {@link Broker#registerConsumer(Consumer)}\r
+     * \r
+     * @param session\r
+     *            Unique session between provider and SAL.\r
+     */\r
+    public void onSessionInitiated(ProviderSession session);\r
+\r
+    /**\r
+     * Gets a set of implementations of provider functionality to be registered\r
+     * into system during the provider registration to the SAL.\r
+     * \r
+     * <p>\r
+     * This method is invoked by {@link Broker#registerProvider(Provider)} to\r
+     * learn the initial provided functionality\r
+     * \r
+     * @return Set of provider's functionality.\r
+     */\r
+    public Collection<ProviderFunctionality> getProviderFunctionality();\r
+\r
+    /**\r
+     * Functionality provided by the {@link Provider}\r
+     * \r
+     * <p>\r
+     * Marker interface used to mark the interfaces describing specific\r
+     * functionality which could be exposed by providers to other components.\r
+     * \r
+\r
+     * \r
+     */\r
+    public interface ProviderFunctionality {\r
+\r
+    }\r
+}\r