Sketching out device driver subsystem to allow extensible device management functions to be made available to applications.
Revising some implementations and adding tests.
Removing fingerprint and extension concept for now.
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2015 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.net;
+
+/**
+ * Represents an mutable set of simple key/value string annotations.
+ */
+public interface MutableAnnotations extends Annotations {
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the value of the specified annotation.
+ *
+ * @param key annotation key
+ * @param value annotation value
+ * @return self
+ */
+ public MutableAnnotations set(String key, String value);
+
+ /**
+ * Clears the specified keys or the all keys if none were specified.
+ *
+ * @param keys keys to be cleared
+ * @return self
+ */
+ public MutableAnnotations clear(String... keys);
+
+}