utils/yangutils/src/main/java/org/onosproject/yangutils/datamodel/YangReference.java

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package org.onosproject.yangutils.datamodel;

/**
 * Abstraction of textual reference for a YANG entity. Abstracted to unify the
 * parsing and translator processing of reference.
 */
public interface YangReference {

    /**
     * Returns the textual reference.
     *
     * @return the reference
     */
    String getReference();

    /**
     * Sets the textual reference.
     *
     * @param reference the reference to set
     */
    void setReference(String reference);

}