Merge "Re-added config.version to config-module-archetype."

[controller.git] / opendaylight / md-sal / sal-binding-api / src / main / java / org / opendaylight / controller / sal / binding / api / NotificationListener.java

diff --git a/opendaylight/md-sal/sal-binding-api/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/controller/sal/binding/api/NotificationListener.java b/opendaylight/md-sal/sal-binding-api/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/controller/sal/binding/api/NotificationListener.java
index ccc73919b66ae440e43956d26517d90bc97778e0..be8e0cefc1a3115329ed3391d99bbc8a38810dcd 100644 (file)
--- a/opendaylight/md-sal/sal-binding-api/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/controller/sal/binding/api/NotificationListener.java
+++ b/opendaylight/md-sal/sal-binding-api/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/controller/sal/binding/api/NotificationListener.java
@@ -1,6 +1,31 @@
+/*
+ * 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.binding.api;
 
-public interface NotificationListener<T> {
+import java.util.EventListener;
 
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.binding.Notification;
+
+/**
+ * Interface for a generic listener that is interested in receiving YANG modeled notifications.
+ * This interface acts as a base interface for specific listeners which usually are a type
+ * capture of this interface.
+ *
+ * @param <T> the interested notification type
+ */
+public interface NotificationListener<T extends Notification> extends EventListener {
+    /**
+     * Invoked to deliver a notification.
+     * <p>
+     * Note that this method may be invoked from a shared thread pool, so implementations SHOULD NOT
+     * perform CPU-intensive operations and MUST NOT invoke any potentially blocking operations.
+     *
+     * @param notification the notification.
+     */
     void onNotification(T notification);
 }