[ONOS-4670] Removal of Data Model dependencies on Linker
Change-Id: I3f9c5af30198ea31d743e06cea1764dcb306ec32
diff --git a/utils/yangutils/src/main/java/org/onosproject/yangutils/datamodel/YangEntityToResolveInfo.java b/utils/yangutils/src/main/java/org/onosproject/yangutils/datamodel/YangEntityToResolveInfo.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2016-present 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.yangutils.datamodel;
+
+/**
+ * Abstraction of information about entity being resolved.
+ *
+ * @param <T> type of entity being resolved, uses / grouping
+ */
+public interface YangEntityToResolveInfo<T> {
+
+ /**
+ * Retrieves the entity to be resolved.
+ *
+ * @return entity to be resolved
+ */
+ T getEntityToResolve();
+
+ /**
+ * Sets entity to be resolved.
+ *
+ * @param entityToResolve entity to be resolved
+ */
+ void setEntityToResolve(T entityToResolve);
+
+ /**
+ * Retrieves the parent node which contains the entity to be resolved.
+ *
+ * @return parent node which contains the entity to be resolved
+ */
+ YangNode getHolderOfEntityToResolve();
+
+ /**
+ * Sets parent node which contains the entity to be resolved.
+ *
+ * @param holderOfEntityToResolve parent node which contains the entity to
+ * be resolved
+ */
+ void setHolderOfEntityToResolve(YangNode holderOfEntityToResolve);
+}