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package org.onosproject.yms.app.ynh;

import org.onosproject.event.ListenerService;
import org.onosproject.yms.ynh.YangNotificationService;

/**
 * Abstraction of an entity which provides interfaces to YANG extended notification
 * service. It provides extended interfaces required by YMS internal modules.
 * Application registers their schema with YMSM, YMSM delegates the registration
 * request to YSR. YSR then looks for the presence of notification in application
 * schema, presence of notification will trigger YSR to ask YANG extended notification
 * service to register it as a listener to that application events.
 */
public interface YangNotificationExtendedService extends YangNotificationService {

    /**
     * Registers as listener with application. This is called by YSR when it
     * detects notification presence in application YANG file at the time when
     * application registers it's schema with YMS.
     *
     * @param appObject application object
     */
    void registerAsListener(ListenerService appObject);

    // TODO handle scenario when multiple services are implemented by single manager.
}