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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2016 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.cluster.sharding;
+
+import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;
+import java.util.concurrent.CompletionStage;
+
+/**
+ * Registration of the CDS shard that allows you to remove the shard from the system by closing the registration.
+ * This removal is done asynchronously.
+ */
+@Beta
+public interface DistributedShardRegistration {
+
+ /**
+ * Removes the shard from the system, this removal is done asynchronously, the future completes once the
+ * backend shard is no longer present.
+ */
+ CompletionStage<Void> close();
+}