/*
* Copyright (c) 2013 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others. All rights reserved.
*
* This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
* terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
* and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*/
package org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.api;
/**
*
* Session-specific instance of the broker functionality.
*
* <p>
* BrokerService is marker interface for infrastructure services provided by the
* SAL. These services are session-specific, each {@link Provider} and
* {@link Consumer} usually has own instance of the service with it's own
* context.
*
* <p>
* The consumer's (or provider's) instance of specific service could be obtained
* by invoking {@link org.opendaylight.controller.sal.core.api.Broker.ConsumerSession#getService(Class)} method on session
* assigned to the consumer.
*
* <p>
* {@link BrokerService} and {@link Provider} may seem similar, but provider
* provides YANG model-based functionality and {@link BrokerService} exposes the
* necessary supporting functionality to implement specific functionality of
* YANG and to reuse it in the development of {@link Consumer}s and
* {@link Provider}s.
*
*
*/
public interface BrokerService {
}