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+/*
+ * Copyright IBM Corporation, 2013. 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.connectionmanager;
+
+/*
+ *
+ * This enum enables the options which could be used for querying
+ * the cluster-members based on the state-change permissions.
+ *
+ * SB Plugin or any other means could be used to store this metadata
+ * against each connection w.r.t. Node
+ *
+ * TODO: When connection-manager is enhanced later to store connection
+ * metadata with permissions, this could be used to query the connections
+ * based on permission-level of the connection
+ *
+ */
+
+public enum NodeAccessPermission {
+
+ /*
+ * This option could be used to retrieve the cluster-members who have rights
+ * only to read the Node state but are not eligible for modifying the state
+ * of Node
+ */
+ READONLY_ACCESS,
+
+ /*
+ * This option could be used to retrieve the cluster-members who have rights
+ * to read and modify the state of Node
+ */
+ READWRITE_ACCESS
+
+}