Changing Intent Ids to use explicit id assignment
Change-Id: I5a4bff87842c37a869e7691b353529eaefc929db
diff --git a/core/api/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/core/IdBlockStore.java b/core/api/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/core/IdBlockStore.java
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+++ b/core/api/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/core/IdBlockStore.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2014 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.onlab.onos.core;
+
+/**
+ * Manages id blocks.
+ */
+public interface IdBlockStore {
+
+ /**
+ * Returns a topic-unique block of ids.
+ *
+ * @param topic topic name
+ * @return id block
+ */
+ IdBlock getIdBlock(String topic);
+
+}