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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2016 Brocade Communications 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.cluster.datastore;
+
+import org.opendaylight.controller.md.sal.common.api.data.AsyncDataBroker.DataChangeScope;
+import org.opendaylight.controller.md.sal.common.api.data.AsyncDataChangeListener;
+import org.opendaylight.controller.md.sal.dom.store.impl.DataChangeListenerRegistration;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.data.api.YangInstanceIdentifier;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.data.api.schema.NormalizedNode;
+
+/**
+ * Interface for a class that generates and publishes notifications for DataChangeListeners.
+ *
+ * @author Thomas Pantelis
+ */
+interface ShardDataChangeListenerPublisher extends ShardDataTreeNotificationPublisher {
+ ShardDataChangeListenerPublisher newInstance();
+
+ <L extends AsyncDataChangeListener<YangInstanceIdentifier, NormalizedNode<?, ?>>> DataChangeListenerRegistration<L>
+ registerDataChangeListener(final YangInstanceIdentifier path,final L listener, final DataChangeScope scope);
+}