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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.switchmanager;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.Node;
+import org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.NodeConnector;
+import org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.Property;
+import org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.UpdateType;
+
+/**
+ * Primary purpose of this interface is to provide methods to listen to inventory changes
+ */
+public interface IInventoryListener {
+ /**
+ * This method is called when some properties of a node are added/deleted/changed.
+ *
+ * @param node {@link org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.Node} being updated
+ * @param type {@link org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.UpdateType}
+ * @param propMap map of {@link org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.Property} such as
+ * {@link org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.Name} and/or
+ * {@link org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.Tier} etc.
+ */
+ public void notifyNode(Node node, UpdateType type,
+ Map<String, Property> propMap);
+
+ /**
+ * This method is called when some properties of a node connector are added/deleted/changed.
+ *
+ * @param nodeConnector {@link org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.NodeConnector} being updated
+ * @param type {@link org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.UpdateType}
+ * @param propMap map of {@link org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.Property} such as
+ * {@link org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.Name} and/or
+ * {@link org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.State} etc.
+ */
+ public void notifyNodeConnector(NodeConnector nodeConnector,
+ UpdateType type, Map<String, Property> propMap);
+}