Deprecate all MD-SAL APIs

[controller.git] / opendaylight / md-sal / sal-common-api / src / main / java / org / opendaylight / controller / md / sal / common / api / notify / NotificationPublishService.java

diff --git a/opendaylight/md-sal/sal-common-api/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/controller/md/sal/common/api/notify/NotificationPublishService.java b/opendaylight/md-sal/sal-common-api/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/controller/md/sal/common/api/notify/NotificationPublishService.java
index f5f03a106b36119b188ca489924d514f88b12f00..4c5ae16b0db016a8d970c7eaaf4ebd438cdb50d3 100644 (file)
--- a/opendaylight/md-sal/sal-common-api/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/controller/md/sal/common/api/notify/NotificationPublishService.java
+++ b/opendaylight/md-sal/sal-common-api/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/controller/md/sal/common/api/notify/NotificationPublishService.java
@@ -9,9 +9,67 @@ package org.opendaylight.controller.md.sal.common.api.notify;
 
 import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
 
+/**
+ * Interface for publishing YANG-modeled notifications.
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * Users of this interface can publish any YANG-modeled notification which will
+ * be delivered to all subscribed listeners.
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * Preferred way of publishing of notifications is done by invoking {@link #publish(Object)}.
+ *
+ * <p>You may consider using {@link #publish(Object, ExecutorService)} if and only if
+ * your use-case requires customized  execution policy or run-to-completion
+ * inside process.
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * The metadata required to deliver a notification to the correct listeners is
+ * extracted from the published notification.
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * FIXME: Consider clarification of execution/delivery policy, how it will be
+ * affected by Actor model and cluster-wide notifications.
+ *
+ * @param <N> the type of notifications
+ */
+@Deprecated
 public interface NotificationPublishService<N> {
 
+    /**
+     * Publishes a notification and notifies subscribed listeners. All listener
+     * notifications are done via a default executor.
+     *
+     * <p>
+     * <b>Note:</b> This call will block when the default executor is saturated
+     * and the notification queue for this executor is full.
+     *
+     * @param notification
+     *            the notification to publish.
+     */
     void publish(N notification);
 
-    void publish(N notification,ExecutorService executor);
+    /**
+     * Publishes a notification and notifies subscribed listeners. All listener
+     * notifications are done via the provided executor.
+     *
+     * <p>
+     * <b>Note:</b> Use only if necessary. Consider using
+     * {@link #publish(Object)} for most use-cases.
+     *
+     * <p>
+     * By using this method you could customize execution policy of listeners present
+     * inside process (e.g. using  single-threaded executor or even same-thread executor
+     * delivery.
+     *
+     * <p>
+     * This executor is used only for inside-process notification deliveries.
+     *
+     * @param notification
+     *            the notification to publish.
+     * @param executor
+     *            the executor that will be used to deliver notifications to
+     *            subscribed listeners.
+     */
+    void publish(N notification, ExecutorService executor);
 }