commit 717361f32f444ed4c7be112b86b58a54cf08cc36
author Srikanth Vavilapalli <srikanth.vavilapalli@ericsson.com> Mon Mar 16 12:06:04 2015 -0700
committer Gerrit Code Review <gerrit@onlab.us> Wed Mar 25 00:27:54 2015 +0000
tree a988e7f5f7a63a4d85b86c7483eb2e12780611aa
parent ee2aa65a3d0bc86311c473e99a727c486dfd6f3e

Distributed group store using eventual consistent map abstraction

Change-Id: I618a0f6fa80e0e25285d7a2026032f09ba90aa70

core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/net/group/GroupKey.java

diff --git a/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/net/group/GroupKey.java b/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/net/group/GroupKey.java
index da8d449..9c87b83 100644
--- a/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/net/group/GroupKey.java
+++ b/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/net/group/GroupKey.java
@@ -17,8 +17,15 @@
 
 /**
  * Representation of generalized Key that would be used to store
- * groups in < Key, Value > store. Implementation of this interface
- * MUST override "equals()" and "hashcode()" methods.
+ * groups in < Key, Value > store. This key uses a generic
+ * byte array so that applications can associate their groups with
+ * any of their data by translating it into a byte array.
  */
 public interface GroupKey  {
+    /**
+     * Returns the byte representation of key.
+     *
+     * @return byte array
+     */
+    public byte[] key();
 }