+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2015 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.openflowplugin.api.openflow.statistics.compatibility;
+
+import com.google.common.util.concurrent.ListenableFuture;
+import org.opendaylight.controller.md.sal.binding.api.NotificationPublishService;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.common.RpcResult;
+
+/**
+ * Prescribes handling and transforming of backward compatible services in order to provide simple to use service
+ * with notification support
+ *
+ * @param <O> rpc input
+ * @param <I> rpc input
+ * @deprecated for backward compatibility only (expected to extinct after Be-release)
+ */
+@Deprecated
+public interface BackwardCompatibleAtomicService<I, O> {
+
+ /**
+ * process rpc request and publish corresponding notification upon success
+ *
+ * @param input rpc input
+ * @param notificationPublishService publisher handle
+ */
+ ListenableFuture<RpcResult<O>> handleAndNotify(I input, NotificationPublishService notificationPublishService);
+}