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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 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.netconf.cli.writer;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.data.api.schema.NormalizedNode;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.model.api.DataSchemaNode;
+
+/**
+ * Generic handler(writer) of output elements for commands
+ */
+public interface Writer<T extends DataSchemaNode> {
+
+ void write(T dataSchemaNode, List<NormalizedNode<?, ?>> dataNodes) throws WriteException;
+
+}