/*
 * Copyright (c) 2013 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.controller.hosttracker;

import org.opendaylight.controller.hosttracker.hostAware.HostNodeConnector;

/**
 * This interface defines the method to notify detected Host on the network. The
 * information includes Host's IP address, MAC address, switch ID, port, and
 * VLAN.
 *
 */

public interface IfHostListener {
    /**
     * Learns new Hosts. Called by ArpHandler and implemented in
     * HostTracker.java. If a Host is learned for the first time then adds it to
     * the local database and informs other applications of coming up a new
     * Host. For the hosts which it has already learned, it refreshes them.
     *
     * @param host
     *            Host info encapsulated in HostNodeConnector class
     */
    public void hostListener(HostNodeConnector host);
}