moving meter service to incubator and initial implementation of
meter manager.
Change-Id: I6ef0d9476b58d00b37f7ef156ac7bdacca20185b
diff --git a/incubator/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/incubator/net/meter/MeterProviderService.java b/incubator/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/incubator/net/meter/MeterProviderService.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.incubator.net.meter;
+
+import org.onosproject.net.DeviceId;
+import org.onosproject.net.provider.ProviderService;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+
+/**
+ * Service through which meter providers can inject information
+ * into the core.
+ */
+public interface MeterProviderService extends ProviderService<MeterProvider> {
+
+ /**
+ * Notifies the core that a meter operaton failed for a
+ * specific reason.
+ * @param operation the failed operation
+ * @param reason the failure reason
+ */
+ void meterOperationFailed(MeterOperation operation,
+ MeterFailReason reason);
+
+ /**
+ * Pushes the collection of meters observed on the data plane as
+ * well as their associated statistics.
+ *
+ * @param deviceId a device id
+ * @param meterEntries a collection of meter entries
+ */
+ void pushMeterMetrics(DeviceId deviceId,
+ Collection<Meter> meterEntries);
+
+
+}