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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.yangtools.yang.model.api;
+
+import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+/**
+ * Represents YANG action statement
+ *
+ * The "action" statement is used to define an operation connected to a
+ * specific container or list data node. It takes one argument, which
+ * is an identifier, followed by a block of substatements that holds
+ * detailed action information. The argument is the name of the action.
+ */
+@Beta
+public interface ActionDefinition extends OperationDefinition {
+
+}