Introducing concept of a physical or logical region to facilitate
support of geographically distributed cluster and to lay ground
for multiple/filtered topology layouts.

Added implementation of manager and store; unit-tests included.

Change-Id: Ia01673a0b711b8785c0ea68768552c2f61d7ea6d
diff --git a/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/net/region/DefaultRegion.java b/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/net/region/DefaultRegion.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2016 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.region;
+
+import com.google.common.base.MoreObjects;
+import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
+import org.onosproject.cluster.NodeId;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Objects;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+/**
+ * Default implementation of a region.
+ */
+public final class DefaultRegion implements Region {
+
+    private final RegionId id;
+    private final String name;
+    private final Type type;
+    private final List<Set<NodeId>> masters;
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a region using the supplied information.
+     *
+     * @param id      region identifier
+     * @param name    friendly name
+     * @param type    region type
+     * @param masters list of sets of cluster node identifiers; in order of mastership
+     */
+    public DefaultRegion(RegionId id, String name, Type type, List<Set<NodeId>> masters) {
+        this.id = id;
+        this.name = name;
+        this.type = type;
+        this.masters = masters != null ? ImmutableList.copyOf(masters) : ImmutableList.of();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public RegionId id() {
+        return id;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String name() {
+        return name;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Type type() {
+        return type;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public List<Set<NodeId>> masters() {
+        return masters;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int hashCode() {
+        return Objects.hash(id, name, type, masters);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
+        if (this == obj) {
+            return true;
+        }
+        if (obj instanceof DefaultRegion) {
+            final DefaultRegion that = (DefaultRegion) obj;
+            return Objects.equals(this.id, that.id)
+                    && Objects.equals(this.name, that.name)
+                    && Objects.equals(this.type, that.type)
+                    && Objects.equals(this.masters, that.masters);
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        return MoreObjects.toStringHelper(this)
+                .add("id", id)
+                .add("name", name)
+                .add("type", type)
+                .add("masters", masters)
+                .toString();
+    }
+
+}