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
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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 org.onosproject.cluster.NodeId;
+import org.onosproject.net.DeviceId;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+/**
+ * Service for interacting with inventory of network control regions.
+ */
+public interface RegionAdminService extends RegionService {
+
+ /**
+ * Creates a new region using the supplied data.
+ *
+ * @param regionId region identifier
+ * @param name friendly name
+ * @param type region type
+ * @param masterNodeIds list of sets of master nodes; null implies empty list
+ * @return new region descriptor
+ * @throws IllegalArgumentException if region already exists
+ */
+ Region createRegion(RegionId regionId, String name, Region.Type type,
+ List<Set<NodeId>> masterNodeIds);
+
+ /**
+ * Update the specified region using the new set of data.
+ *
+ * @param regionId region identifier
+ * @param name friendly name
+ * @param type region type
+ * @param masterNodeIds list of sets of master nodes; null implies empty list
+ * @return new region descriptor
+ */
+ Region updateRegion(RegionId regionId, String name, Region.Type type,
+ List<Set<NodeId>> masterNodeIds);
+
+ /**
+ * Removes the specified region using the new set of data.
+ *
+ * @param regionId region identifier
+ */
+ void removeRegion(RegionId regionId);
+
+ /**
+ * Adds the specified collection of devices to the region.
+ *
+ * @param regionId region identifier
+ * @param deviceIds list of device identifiers
+ */
+ void addDevices(RegionId regionId, Collection<DeviceId> deviceIds);
+
+ /**
+ * Removes the specified collection of devices from the region.
+ *
+ * @param regionId region identifier
+ * @param deviceIds list of device identifiers
+ */
+ void removeDevices(RegionId regionId, Collection<DeviceId> deviceIds);
+
+}