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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.messages;
+
+import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
+import org.opendaylight.controller.cluster.sharding.ShardedDataTreeActor;
+import org.opendaylight.mdsal.dom.api.DOMDataTreeIdentifier;
+
+/**
+ * Sent to the local {@link ShardedDataTreeActor} to notify of a shard removal on the local node. The local actor
+ * should then notify the remote nodes of the Removal with {@link PrefixShardRemoved} message.
+ */
+public class RemovePrefixShard {
+
+ private final DOMDataTreeIdentifier prefix;
+
+ public RemovePrefixShard(final DOMDataTreeIdentifier prefix) {
+
+ this.prefix = Preconditions.checkNotNull(prefix);
+ }
+
+ public DOMDataTreeIdentifier getPrefix() {
+ return prefix;
+ }
+}