added treatment support and conversion to an instruction

moved to meter api to onos-api

Change-Id: I0504f06fdc503953fa7696224d97edda43596d6e
diff --git a/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/net/meter/Band.java b/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/net/meter/Band.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2015 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.net.meter;
+
+/**
+ * Represents a band used within a meter.
+ */
+public interface Band {
+
+    /**
+     * Specifies the type of band.
+     */
+    enum Type {
+        /**
+         * Simple rate limiter which drops packets
+         * when the rate is exceeded.
+         */
+        DROP,
+
+        /**
+         * defines a simple DiffServ policer that remark
+         * the drop precedence of the DSCP field in the
+         * IP header of the packets that exceed the band
+         * rate value.
+         */
+        REMARK
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The rate at which this meter applies.
+     *
+     * @return the long value of the rate
+     */
+    long rate();
+
+    /**
+     * The burst size at which the meter applies.
+     *
+     * @return the long value of the size
+     */
+    long burst();
+
+    /**
+     * Only meaningful in the case of a REMARK band type.
+     * indicates by which amount the drop precedence of
+     * the packet should be increase if the band is exceeded.
+     *
+     * @return a short value
+     */
+    short dropPrecedence();
+
+    /**
+     * Signals the type of band to create.
+     *
+     * @return a band type
+     */
+    Type type();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the packets seen by this band.
+     *
+     * @return a long value
+     */
+    long packets();
+
+    /**
+     * Return the bytes seen by this band.
+     *
+     * @return a byte counter
+     */
+    long bytes();
+
+    interface Builder {
+
+        /**
+         * Assigns a rate to this band. The units for this rate
+         * are defined in the encapsulating meter.
+         *
+         * @param rate a long value
+         * @return this
+         */
+        Builder withRate(long rate);
+
+        /**
+         * Assigns a burst size to this band. Only meaningful if
+         * the encapsulating meter is of burst type.
+         *
+         * @param burstSize a long value.
+         * @return this
+         */
+        Builder burstSize(long burstSize);
+
+        /**
+         * Assigns the drop precedence for this band. Only meaningful if
+         * the band is of REMARK type.
+         *
+         * @param prec a short value
+         * @return this
+         */
+        Builder dropPrecedence(short prec);
+
+        /**
+         * Assigns the @See Type of this band.
+         *
+         * @param type a band type
+         * @return this
+         */
+        Builder ofType(Type type);
+
+        /**
+         * Builds the band.
+         *
+         * @return a band
+         */
+        Band build();
+
+    }
+
+
+}