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+
+/*
+ * 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.containermanager.internal;
+
+import org.opendaylight.controller.containermanager.ContainerData;
+
+/**
+ * @file IContainerInternal.java
+ *
+ * @brief Interface to export internal container manager data to friend classes
+ *
+ * Interface to export internal container manager data to friend classes
+ */
+
+interface IContainerInternal {
+ /**
+ * Return a reference to containerData if available so a friend class
+ * can extract all the data and cook them up.
+ *
+ * @param containerName ContainerName for which we want to export the data
+ *
+ * @return null if containerName doesn't exist or a reference to
+ * ContainerData if exists
+ */
+ ContainerData getContainerData(String containerName);
+}