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package org.onosproject.segmentrouting.policy.api;

/**
 * Abstract implementation of the policy interface.
 */
public abstract class AbstractPolicy implements Policy {
    // Shared state among policies
    protected PolicyId policyId;
    private PolicyType policyType;

    /**
     * Init the basic information of a policy.
     *
     * @param pType the policy type
     */
    protected AbstractPolicy(PolicyType pType) {
        policyType = pType;
    }

    @Override
    public PolicyId policyId() {
        return policyId;
    }

    @Override
    public PolicyType policyType() {
        return policyType;
    }

    /**
     * Computes the policy id. The actual computation is left to
     * the implementation class that can decide how to generate the
     * policy id.
     *
     * @return the computed policy id
     */
    protected abstract PolicyId computePolicyId();

}