Added DistributedPrimitive interface
Added AsyncDistributedSet that provides async set operations
Change-Id: I83494075a7973694ea6b7445ff4799b7a1a50641
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2015-2016 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.store.service;
+
+import org.onosproject.core.ApplicationId;
+
+/**
+ * Interface for all distributed primitives.
+ */
+public interface DistributedPrimitive {
+
+ /**
+ * Type of distributed primitive.
+ */
+ public enum Type {
+ /**
+ * Map with strong consistency semantics.
+ */
+ CONSISTENT_MAP,
+
+ /**
+ * Map with eventual consistency semantics.
+ */
+ EVENTUALLY_CONSISTENT_MAP,
+
+ /**
+ * distributed set.
+ */
+ SET,
+
+ /**
+ * atomic counter.
+ */
+ COUNTER,
+
+ /**
+ * Atomic value.
+ */
+ VALUE,
+
+ /**
+ * Distributed queue.
+ */
+ QUEUE
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the name of this primitive.
+ * @return name
+ */
+ String name();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the type of primitive.
+ * @return primitive type
+ */
+ Type type();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the application owning this primitive.
+ */
+ default ApplicationId applicationId() {
+ return null;
+ }
+}