Srikanth Vavilapalli | 56db94f | 2015-01-22 22:30:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | /* |
Brian O'Connor | a09fe5b | 2017-08-03 21:12:30 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | * Copyright 2015-present Open Networking Foundation |
Srikanth Vavilapalli | 56db94f | 2015-01-22 22:30:17 -0800 | [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 | */ |
| 16 | package org.onosproject.net.group; |
| 17 | |
Srikanth Vavilapalli | 0599d51 | 2015-01-30 12:57:56 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | /** |
| 19 | * Representation of generalized Key that would be used to store |
Srikanth Vavilapalli | 717361f | 2015-03-16 12:06:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | * groups in < Key, Value > store. This key uses a generic |
| 21 | * byte array so that applications can associate their groups with |
| 22 | * any of their data by translating it into a byte array. |
Srikanth Vavilapalli | 56db94f | 2015-01-22 22:30:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | */ |
| 24 | public interface GroupKey { |
Srikanth Vavilapalli | 717361f | 2015-03-16 12:06:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | /** |
| 26 | * Returns the byte representation of key. |
| 27 | * |
| 28 | * @return byte array |
| 29 | */ |
Sho SHIMIZU | 3310a34 | 2015-05-13 12:14:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | byte[] key(); |
Srikanth Vavilapalli | 56db94f | 2015-01-22 22:30:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | } |