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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.iptopology.api;
+
+import static com.google.common.base.MoreObjects.toStringHelper;
+
+import java.util.Objects;
+
+/**
+ * Represents Traffic engineering metrics.
+  */
+public class Metric {
+    private final Integer metric;
+
+    /**
+     * Constructor to initialize its metric.
+     *
+     * @param metric can be TE metric or IGP metric or Prefix metric
+     */
+    public Metric(Integer metric) {
+        this.metric = metric;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Obtains traffic engineering metric.
+     *
+     * @return traffic engineering metric
+     */
+    public Integer metric() {
+        return metric;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int hashCode() {
+        return Objects.hash(metric);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
+        if (this == obj) {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        if (obj instanceof Metric) {
+            Metric other = (Metric) obj;
+            return Objects.equals(metric, other.metric);
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        return toStringHelper(this)
+                .add("metric", metric)
+                .toString();
+    }
+}
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