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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 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.yang.parser.builder.api;
+
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import org.opendaylight.controller.yang.common.QName;
+import org.opendaylight.controller.yang.model.api.DataSchemaNode;
+import org.opendaylight.controller.yang.model.api.GroupingDefinition;
+import org.opendaylight.controller.yang.model.api.SchemaPath;
+
+/**
+ * Interface for all yang data-node containers [augment, case, container,
+ * grouping, list, module, notification].
+ */
+public interface DataNodeContainerBuilder extends Builder {
+
+ /**
+ * Get qname of this node.
+ *
+ * @return QName of this node
+ */
+ QName getQName();
+
+ /**
+ * Get schema path of this node.
+ *
+ * @return SchemaPath of this node
+ */
+ SchemaPath getPath();
+
+ /**
+ * Get already built child nodes.
+ *
+ * @return collection of child nodes
+ */
+ Set<DataSchemaNode> getChildNodes();
+
+ /**
+ * Get builders of child nodes.
+ *
+ * @return collection child nodes builders
+ */
+ Set<DataSchemaNodeBuilder> getChildNodeBuilders();
+
+ /**
+ * Get child node by name.
+ *
+ * @param name
+ * name of child to seek
+ * @return child node with given name if present, null otherwise
+ */
+ DataSchemaNodeBuilder getDataChildByName(String name);
+
+ /**
+ * Add builder of child node to this node.
+ *
+ * @param childNode
+ */
+ void addChildNode(DataSchemaNodeBuilder childNode);
+
+ /**
+ * Get already built groupings defined in this node.
+ *
+ * @return collection of GroupingDefinition objects
+ */
+ Set<GroupingDefinition> getGroupings();
+
+ /**
+ * Get builders of groupings defined in this node.
+ *
+ * @return collection of grouping builders
+ */
+ Set<GroupingBuilder> getGroupingBuilders();
+
+ /**
+ * Add builder of grouping statement to this node.
+ *
+ * @param groupingBuilder
+ */
+ void addGrouping(GroupingBuilder groupingBuilder);
+
+ /**
+ * Add builder of uses statement to this node.
+ *
+ * @param usesBuilder
+ */
+ void addUsesNode(UsesNodeBuilder usesBuilder);
+
+ /**
+ * Get builders of typedef statement defined in this node.
+ *
+ * @return
+ */
+ Set<TypeDefinitionBuilder> getTypeDefinitionBuilders();
+
+ /**
+ * Add typedef builder to this node.
+ *
+ * @param typedefBuilder
+ */
+ void addTypedef(TypeDefinitionBuilder typedefBuilder);
+
+}