Thomas Vachuska | 4f1a60c | 2014-10-28 13:39:07 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | /* |
Brian O'Connor | 5ab426f | 2016-04-09 01:19:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | * Copyright 2014-present Open Networking Laboratory |
Thomas Vachuska | 4f1a60c | 2014-10-28 13:39:07 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | * |
| 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 |
| 7 | * |
| 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. |
| 15 | */ |
Brian O'Connor | abafb50 | 2014-12-02 22:26:20 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | package org.onosproject.net.host; |
tom | 0eb04ca | 2014-08-25 14:34:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | |
Brian O'Connor | abafb50 | 2014-12-02 22:26:20 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | import org.onosproject.net.Host; |
| 19 | import org.onosproject.net.provider.Provider; |
tom | 0eb04ca | 2014-08-25 14:34:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | |
| 21 | /** |
| 22 | * Provider of information about hosts and their location on the network. |
| 23 | */ |
| 24 | public interface HostProvider extends Provider { |
tom | e33cc1a | 2014-08-25 21:59:41 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | |
tom | e33cc1a | 2014-08-25 21:59:41 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | /** |
| 27 | * Triggers an asynchronous probe of the specified host, intended to |
| 28 | * determine whether the host is present or not. An indirect result of this |
Brian O'Connor | abafb50 | 2014-12-02 22:26:20 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | * should be invocation of {@link org.onosproject.net.host.HostProviderService#hostDetected} |
| 30 | * or {@link org.onosproject.net.host.HostProviderService#hostVanished} |
tom | e33cc1a | 2014-08-25 21:59:41 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | * at some later point in time. |
| 32 | * |
| 33 | * @param host host to probe |
| 34 | */ |
| 35 | void triggerProbe(Host host); |
| 36 | |
tom | 0eb04ca | 2014-08-25 14:34:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 37 | } |