apps/iptopology-api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/iptopology/api/device/IpDeviceDescription.java

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package org.onosproject.iptopology.api.device;

import org.onosproject.iptopology.api.DeviceTed;
import org.onosproject.iptopology.api.IpDevice;
import org.onosproject.iptopology.api.IpDeviceIdentifier;
import org.onosproject.net.Description;


import java.net.URI;

/**
 * Carrier of immutable information about an ip device.
 */
public interface IpDeviceDescription extends Description {

    /**
     * Protocol/provider specific URI that can be used to encode the identity
     * information required to communicate with the ip device externally, e.g.
     * datapath ID.
     *
     * @return provider specific URI for the ip device
     */
    URI deviceUri();

    /**
     * Returns the type of the ip device. For ex: Psuedo or actual
     *
     * @return type of the device
     */
    IpDevice.Type type();

    /**
     * Returns the device identifier details.
     *
     * @return identifier of the device
     */
    IpDeviceIdentifier deviceIdentifier();

    /**
     * Returns the traffic engineering parameters of the device.
     *
     * @return traffic engineering parameters of the device
     */
    DeviceTed deviceTed();

}