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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.forwardingrulesmanager;
-
-import java.util.Map;
-
-import org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.Node;
-
-/**
- * PortGroupProvider interface provides all the necessary blueprint for a custom
- * application to implement in order to provide Port Grouping Service. Custom
- * Application that implements this interface will have to handle the opaque
- * match criteria passed to it via PortGroupConfig.
- *
- *
- *
- */
-public interface PortGroupProvider {
- /**
- * This method is invoked by the Controller towards the Provider when a new
- * port group is configured.
- *
- * @param config
- * New PortGroupConfig object created by user Configuration.
- * @return true if successful. false otherwise.
- */
- boolean createPortGroupConfig(PortGroupConfig config);
-
- /**
- * This method is invoked by the Controller towards the Provider when an
- * existing port group is deleted.
- *
- * @param config
- * Existing Port Group Configuration deleted by the user.
- * @return true if successful. false otherwise.
- */
- boolean deletePortGroupConfig(PortGroupConfig config);
-
- /**
- * Returns the complete mapping database corresponds to a PortGroup
- * Configuration. Its the PortGroupProvider Application's responsibility to
- * manage the Switches & the Set of its Ports that correspond to each of the
- * Configuration and return it to the Controller when requested.
- *
- * @param config
- * User Configuration
- * @see PortGroupConfig
- * @return Database of Switch-Id to PortGroup mapping that corresponds to
- * the Port Group User Configuration.
- */
- Map<Node, PortGroup> getPortGroupData(PortGroupConfig config);
-
- /**
- * Returns PortGroup data for a given Switch and user Configuration. Its the
- * PortGroupProvider Application's responsibility to manage the Switches &
- * the Set of its Ports that correspond to each of the Configuration and
- * return it to the Controller when requested.
- *
- * @param config
- * User Configuration
- * @param matrixSwitchId
- * Switch Id that represents an openflow Switch
- * @see PortGroupConfig
- * @return PortGroup data for a given Openflow switch.
- * @see PortGroup
- */
- PortGroup getPortGroupData(PortGroupConfig config, long matrixSwitchId);
-
- /**
- * Registers a Listener for Port Group membership changes based on Custom
- * application algorithm.
- *
- * @param listener
- * A Controller module that listens to events from the Custom
- * Port Grouping Application.
- */
- void registerPortGroupChange(PortGroupChangeListener listener);
-
- /**
- * Application returns an Usage string for the Match Criteria User
- * Configuration. Controller provides an opportunity for application to
- * implement Custom Algorithm for Port Grouping. This method exposes the
- * custom algorithm to the user so that the user can configure the
- * matchString regular expression in PortGroupConfig appropriately.
- *
- * @return Usage string.
- */
- String getApplicationDrivenMatchCriteriaUsage();
-
- /**
- * Returns the name of the Custom Application that implements
- * PortGroupProvider interface.
- *
- * @return Provider Name
- */
- String getProviderName();
-
- /**
- * Controller uses this method to check with the Provider supports the
- * matchCriteria String configured by the User.
- *
- * @param matchCriteria
- * @return true if the Provider supports the matchCriteria String. false
- * otherwise.
- */
- boolean isMatchCriteriaSupported(String matchCriteria);
-}