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+/*Copyright 2016.year 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 java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * Abstraction of atomic configurable/status entity. It is used to abstract the
+ * data holders of leaf or leaf list. Used in leaves parsing or attribute code
+ * generation.
+ */
+public interface YangLeavesHolder {
+
+    /**
+     * Get the list of leaves from data holder like container / list.
+     *
+     * @return the list of leaves.
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
+    public List<YangLeaf> getListOfLeaf();
+
+    /**
+     * Add a leaf in data holder like container / list.
+     *
+     * @param leaf the leaf to be added.
+     */
+    void addLeaf(YangLeaf<?> leaf);
+
+    /**
+     * Get the list of leaf-list from data holder like container / list.
+     *
+     * @return the list of leaf-list.
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
+    List<YangLeafList> getListOfLeafList();
+
+    /**
+     * Add a leaf-list in data holder like container / list.
+     *
+     * @param leafList the leaf-list to be added.
+     */
+    void addLeafList(YangLeafList<?> leafList);
+}