opendaylight/md-sal/sal-binding-api/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/controller/sal/binding/api/BindingAwareService.java

   1 /*
   2  * Copyright (c) 2013 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others.  All rights reserved.
   3  *
   4  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
   5  * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
   6  * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
   7  */
   8 package org.opendaylight.controller.sal.binding.api;
   9
  10 import org.opendaylight.controller.md.sal.binding.api.BindingService;
  11
  12 /**
  13  * Session-specific instance of the broker functionality.
  14  *
  15  * <p>
  16  * BindingAwareService is marker interface for infrastructure services provided
  17  * by the SAL. These services are session-specific, each
  18  * {@link BindingAwareConsumer} and {@link BindingAwareProvider} usually has own
  19  * instance of the service with it's own context.
  20  *
  21  * <p>
  22  * The consumer's (or provider's) instance of specific service could be obtained by invoking
  23  * {@link org.opendaylight.controller.sal.binding.api.BindingAwareBroker.ConsumerContext#getSALService(Class)}
  24  * method on session assigned to the consumer.
  25  *
  26  * <p>
  27  * {@link org.opendaylight.controller.sal.binding.api.BindingAwareBroker.ConsumerContext}
  28  * and {@link BindingAwareProvider} may seem similar, but provider provides YANG model-based functionality and
  29  * {@link BindingAwareProvider} exposes the necessary supporting functionality
  30  * to implement specific functionality of YANG and to reuse it in the
  31  * development of {@link BindingAwareConsumer}s and {@link BindingAwareProvider}s.
  32  *
  33  * @deprecated Use {@link BindingService} instead.
  34  */
  35 @Deprecated
  36 public interface BindingAwareService {
  37
  38 }