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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.binding.spi;
+
+import org.opendaylight.controller.yang.binding.DataObject;
+import org.opendaylight.controller.yang.common.QName;
+import org.opendaylight.controller.yang.data.api.CompositeNode;
+/**
+ * Translator between Binding-Independent format and generated Binding Data Objects
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ * @param <T> Result Type
+ */
+public interface Mapper<T extends DataObject> {
+
+ QName getQName();
+ Class<T> getDataObjectClass();
+ T objectFromDom(CompositeNode object);
+
+ /**
+ *
+ * @param obj
+ * @return
+ * @throws IllegalArgumentException
+ */
+ CompositeNode domFromObject(DataObject obj) throws IllegalArgumentException;
+
+}