[ONOS-4670] Removal of Data Model dependencies on Linker
Change-Id: I3f9c5af30198ea31d743e06cea1764dcb306ec32
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/onosproject/yangutils/datamodel/YangResolutionInfo.java b/src/main/java/org/onosproject/yangutils/datamodel/YangResolutionInfo.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2016-present Open Networking Laboratory
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.onosproject.yangutils.datamodel;
+
+import org.onosproject.yangutils.datamodel.exceptions.DataModelException;
+
+/**
+ * Abstraction of resolution object which will be resolved by linker.
+ *
+ * @param <T> type of resolution entity uses / type
+ */
+public interface YangResolutionInfo<T> extends LocationInfo {
+
+ /**
+ * Resolves linking with all the ancestors node for a resolution info.
+ *
+ * @param dataModelRootNode module/sub-module node
+ * @throws DataModelException DataModelException a violation of data model
+ * rules
+ */
+ void resolveLinkingForResolutionInfo(YangReferenceResolver dataModelRootNode)
+ throws DataModelException;
+
+ /**
+ * Retrieves information about the entity that needs to be resolved.
+ *
+ * @return information about the entity that needs to be resolved
+ */
+ YangEntityToResolveInfo<T> getEntityToResolveInfo();
+
+ /**
+ * Performs inter file linking of uses/type referring to typedef/grouping
+ * of other YANG file.
+ *
+ * @param dataModelRootNode module/sub-module node
+ * @throws DataModelException a violation in data model rule
+ */
+ void linkInterFile(YangReferenceResolver dataModelRootNode)
+ throws DataModelException;
+}