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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2020 PANTHEON.tech, 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.yangtools.plugin.generator.api;
+
+import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;
+import com.google.common.collect.Table;
+import java.util.Set;
+import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNullByDefault;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.model.api.EffectiveModelContext;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.model.api.Module;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.model.api.SchemaContext;
+
+/**
+ * Interface implemented by plugins which can generate files from a {@link EffectiveModelContext}.
+ *
+ * @author Robert Varga
+ */
+@Beta
+@NonNullByDefault
+public interface FileGenerator {
+ /**
+ * Indicate import resolution mode this code generator requires. Default implementation indicates
+ * {@link ImportResolutionMode#REVISION_EXACT_OR_LATEST}.
+ *
+ * @return Required import resolution mode, null if the code generator does not care.
+ */
+ default ImportResolutionMode importResolutionMode() {
+ return ImportResolutionMode.REVISION_EXACT_OR_LATEST;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Generate files from a {@link SchemaContext}, being aware the that specific modules are local to the current
+ * project being processed.
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * Implementations of this interface must not interact with project directory directly, but rather supply the files
+ * generated as a set of {@link GeneratedFile}s. The caller of this method will use these to integrate with build
+ * management to ensure proper dependency tracking is performed.
+ *
+ * @param context SchemaContext to examine
+ * @param localModules Modules local to the project
+ * @param moduleResourcePathResolver Module-to-resource path resolver
+ * @return The set of generated files.
+ * @throws FileGeneratorException if anything bad happens
+ */
+ Table<GeneratedFileType, GeneratedFilePath, GeneratedFile> generateFiles(EffectiveModelContext context,
+ Set<Module> localModules, ModuleResourceResolver moduleResourcePathResolver) throws FileGeneratorException;
+
+ /**
+ * {@link EffectiveModelContext} can be assembled in multiple ways, we hold known modes here.
+ */
+ @Beta
+ enum ImportResolutionMode {
+ /**
+ * Standard, RFC6020 and RFC7950 compliant mode. Imports are satisfied by exact revision match (if specified),
+ * or by latest available revision.
+ */
+ REVISION_EXACT_OR_LATEST,
+ /**
+ * Semantic version based mode. Imports which specify a semantic version (via the OpenConfig extension) will
+ * be satisfied by module which exports the latest compatible revision. Imports which do not specify semantic
+ * version will be resolved just as they would be via {@link #REVISION_EXACT_OR_LATEST}.
+ */
+ SEMVER_LATEST,
+ }
+}