core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/event/EventDeliveryService.java

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package org.onosproject.event;

/**
 * Abstraction of an entity capable of accepting events to be posted and
 * then dispatching them to the appropriate event sink.
 */
public interface EventDeliveryService extends EventDispatcher, EventSinkRegistry {

    /**
     * Sets the number of millis that an event sink has to process an event.
     *
     * @param millis number of millis allowed per sink per event
     */
    void setDispatchTimeLimit(long millis);

    /**
     * Returns the number of millis that an event sink has to process an event.
     *
     * @return number of millis allowed per sink per event
     */
    long getDispatchTimeLimit();

}