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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 Pantheon Technologies s.r.o. 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.openflowjava.protocol.impl.core;
+
+import com.google.common.util.concurrent.ListenableFuture;
+
+
+/**
+ * @author mirehak
+ */
+public interface ShutdownProvider {
+
+ /**
+ * @return shutdown future
+ */
+ ListenableFuture<Boolean> shutdown();
+
+}