Thomas Vachuska | 83e090e | 2014-10-22 14:25:35 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | /* |
Thomas Vachuska | 4f1a60c | 2014-10-28 13:39:07 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | * Copyright 2014 Open Networking Laboratory |
Thomas Vachuska | 83e090e | 2014-10-22 14:25:35 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | * |
Thomas Vachuska | 4f1a60c | 2014-10-28 13:39:07 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); |
| 5 | * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. |
| 6 | * You may obtain a copy of the License at |
Thomas Vachuska | 83e090e | 2014-10-22 14:25:35 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | * |
Thomas Vachuska | 4f1a60c | 2014-10-28 13:39:07 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 |
| 9 | * |
| 10 | * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software |
| 11 | * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, |
| 12 | * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. |
| 13 | * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and |
| 14 | * limitations under the License. |
Thomas Vachuska | 83e090e | 2014-10-22 14:25:35 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | */ |
Brian O'Connor | b876bf1 | 2014-10-02 14:59:37 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | package org.onlab.onos.net.intent; |
| 17 | |
| 18 | import java.util.List; |
| 19 | |
| 20 | /** |
| 21 | * Abstraction of a compiler which is capable of taking an intent |
| 22 | * and translating it to other, potentially installable, intents. |
| 23 | * |
| 24 | * @param <T> the type of intent |
| 25 | */ |
| 26 | public interface IntentCompiler<T extends Intent> { |
| 27 | /** |
| 28 | * Compiles the specified intent into other intents. |
| 29 | * |
| 30 | * @param intent intent to be compiled |
| 31 | * @return list of resulting intents |
| 32 | * @throws IntentException if issues are encountered while compiling the intent |
| 33 | */ |
| 34 | List<Intent> compile(T intent); |
| 35 | } |