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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.groupbasedpolicy.sxp.ep.provider.impl;
+
+import com.google.common.base.Optional;
+import com.google.common.util.concurrent.ListenableFuture;
+import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.binding.DataObject;
+
+/**
+ * Purpose: encapsulate access to DS by exposing
+ * <dl>
+ * <dt>read</dt>
+ * <dd>search through values (either in local cache or directly in DataStore)</dd>
+ * </dl>
+ *
+ * @param <K> data key type
+ * @param <V> data type
+ */
+public interface DSAsyncDao<K, V extends DataObject> {
+
+ /**
+ * @param key for search
+ * @return value found by key
+ */
+ ListenableFuture<Optional<V>> read(@Nonnull K key);
+
+}