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package org.opendaylight.controller.md.sal.binding.api;

import org.opendaylight.yangtools.concepts.ListenerRegistration;
import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.binding.NotificationListener;

/**
 * Notification broker which allows clients to subscribe for and publish YANG-modeled notifications.
 *
 * Each YANG module which defines notifications results in a generated interface <code>{ModuleName}Listener</code>
 * which handles all the notifications defined in the YANG model. Each notification type translates to
 * a specific method of the form <code>on{NotificationType}</code> on the generated interface.
 * The generated interface also extends the
 * {@link org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.binding.NotificationListener} interface and implementations
 * are registered using {@link #registerNotificationListener(org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.binding.NotificationListener)}
 * method.
 *
 * <h5>Dispatch Listener Example</h5>
 * <p>
 * Lets assume we have following YANG model:
 *
 * <pre>
 * module example {
 *      ...
 *
 *      notification start {
 *          ...
 *      }
 *
 *      notification stop {
 *           ...
 *      }
 * }
 * </pre>
 *
 * The generated interface will be:
 * <pre>
 *  public interface ExampleListener extends NotificationListener {
 *      void onStart(Start notification);
 *      void onStop(Stop notification);
 *  }
 * </pre>
 * The following defines an implementation of the generated interface:
 * <pre>
 *  public class MyExampleListener implements ExampleListener {
 *      public void onStart(Start notification) {
 *          // do something
 *      }
 *
 *      public void onStop(Stop notification) {
 *          // do something
 *      }
 *  }
 * </pre>
 * The implementation is registered as follows:
 * <pre>
 *  MyExampleListener listener = new MyExampleListener();
 *  ListenerRegistration<NotificationListener> reg = service.registerNotificationListener( listener );
 * </pre>
 * The <code>onStart</code> method will be invoked when someone publishes a <code>Start</code> notification and
 * the <code>onStop</code> method will be invoked when someone publishes a <code>Stop</code> notification.
 */
public interface NotificationService extends BindingService {
    /**
     * Registers a listener which implements a YANG-generated notification interface derived from
     * {@link NotificationListener}. The listener is registered for all notifications present in
     * the implemented interface.
     *
     * @param listener the listener implementation that will receive notifications.
     * @return a {@link ListenerRegistration} instance that should be used to unregister the listener
     *         by invoking the {@link ListenerRegistration#close()} method when no longer needed.
     */
    <T extends NotificationListener> ListenerRegistration<T> registerNotificationListener(T listener);
}