/*
 * 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.sal.utils;

import org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.Node;
import org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.NodeConnector;

/**
 * This interface defines the methods to be called when looking up custom node types
 *
 */

public interface INodeConnectorFactory {
    /**
     * Method to get custom NodeConnector types from protocol plugins
     *
     * @param typeStr
     *            {@Link
     *            org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.NodeConnector} type
     *            string
     * @param IDStr
     *            {@Link
     *            org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.NodeConnector} ID string
     * @return the custom {@Link
     *         org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.NodeConnector}
     */
    public NodeConnector fromStringNoNode(String typeStr, String IDStr,
            Node n);
}