ONOS-7050 First stab at PI translation store
Change-Id: I7f48802b1f5d70fbe3e6cead2800855de18b9207
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2017-present Open Networking Foundation
+ *
+ * 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.pi.runtime;
+
+import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;
+
+/**
+ * Abstraction of an entity of a protocol-independent that can be read or write
+ * at runtime.
+ */
+@Beta
+public interface PiEntity {
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the type of this entity.
+ *
+ * @return entity type
+ */
+ PiEntityType piEntityType();
+}