Initial opendaylight infrastructure commit!!

[controller.git] / opendaylight / sal / api / src / main / java / org / opendaylight / controller / sal / topology / ITopologyService.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 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.sal.topology;
+
+/**
+ * @file   ITopologyService.java
+ *
+ * @brief  Topology methods provided by SAL toward the applications
+ *
+ * For example An application that startup late in the game or restart
+ * for example, wants to know the current status of SAL, so can use
+ * this interface to get a bunlk sync of the topology status.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Topology methods provided by SAL toward the applications
+ */
+public interface ITopologyService {
+    /**
+     * Tell to SAL that is time to send the updates of the
+     * current topology because someone joined late the game
+     *
+     */
+    public void sollicitRefresh();
+}