adding a multicast service to track multicast information.

This will be used by publishers to advertise multicast information
and by consumers to realise it on the dataplane.

This is currently an app but it may be moved to incubation.

Change-Id: I6e350989207ce2207bf70da22ca15c8237b1d240
diff --git a/apps/mcast/src/main/java/org/onosproject/mcast/McastEvent.java b/apps/mcast/src/main/java/org/onosproject/mcast/McastEvent.java
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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.mcast;
+
+import org.onosproject.event.AbstractEvent;
+import org.onosproject.net.ConnectPoint;
+
+import java.util.Optional;
+
+/**
+ * An entity representing a multicast event. Event either add or remove
+ * sinks or sources.
+ */
+public class McastEvent extends AbstractEvent<McastEvent.Type, McastRoute> {
+
+    private final Optional<ConnectPoint> sink;
+    private final Optional<ConnectPoint> source;
+
+    public enum Type {
+        /**
+         * A new mcast route has been added.
+         */
+        ROUTE_ADDED,
+
+        /**
+         * A mcast route has been removed.
+         */
+        ROUTE_REMOVED,
+
+        /**
+         * A source for a mcast route (ie. the subject) has been added.
+         */
+        SOURCE_ADDED,
+
+        /**
+         * A source for a mcast route (ie. the subject) has been removed.
+         */
+        SOURCE_REMOVED,
+
+        /**
+         * A sink for a mcast route (ie. the subject) has been added.
+         */
+        SINK_ADDED,
+
+        /**
+         * A source for a mcast route (ie. the subject) has been removed.
+         */
+        SINK_REMOVED
+    }
+
+    private McastEvent(McastEvent.Type type, McastRoute subject) {
+        super(type, subject);
+        sink = Optional.empty();
+        source = Optional.empty();
+    }
+
+    private McastEvent(McastEvent.Type type, McastRoute subject, long time) {
+        super(type, subject, time);
+        sink = Optional.empty();
+        source = Optional.empty();
+    }
+
+    protected McastEvent(McastEvent.Type type, McastRoute subject,
+                       ConnectPoint sink,
+                       ConnectPoint source) {
+        super(type, subject);
+        this.sink = Optional.ofNullable(sink);
+        this.source = Optional.ofNullable(source);
+    }
+
+    protected McastEvent(McastEvent.Type type, McastRoute subject, long time,
+                       ConnectPoint sink,
+                       ConnectPoint source) {
+        super(type, subject, time);
+        this.sink = Optional.ofNullable(sink);
+        this.source = Optional.ofNullable(source);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The sink which has been removed or added. The field may not be set
+     * if the sink has not been detected yet or has been removed.
+     *
+     * @return an optional connect point
+     */
+    public Optional<ConnectPoint> sink() {
+        return sink;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The source which has been removed or added. The field may not be set
+     * if the source has not been detected yet or has been removed.
+
+     * @return an optional connect point
+     */
+    public Optional<ConnectPoint> source() {
+        return source;
+    }
+}