/*
* Copyright (c) 2014 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.yangtools.yang.model.repo.api;
import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;
import java.util.Optional;
import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
import org.opendaylight.yangtools.concepts.Identifiable;
import org.opendaylight.yangtools.concepts.Immutable;
/**
* Common interface for schema source representations.
*
* A schema source is an atomic piece of the overall schema context. In YANG terms,
* a schema source is semantically equivalent to a single YANG text file, be it a
* module or a submodule.
*
* A schema source can exist in various forms, which we call representations. Again,
* in YANG terms, each representation is semantically equivalent, but from
* implementation perspective certain operations on a schema source may require it
* to be first transformed into a particular representation before they can be
* applied. Such transformations are affected via instances of
* SchemaSourceTransformation.
*
* Typical examples of a schema source representation include:
* <ul>
* <li>a {@link java.lang.String} - textual representation of source code
* <li>a {@link java.io.InputStream} - input stream containing source code
* <li>a {@link com.google.common.io.ByteSource} - source for input streams
* containing source code
* <li>Parsed abstract syntax tree (AST), which is the result of a syntactic parser
* </ul>
*
* Implementations of this interface expected to comply with the {@link Immutable}
* contract.
*/
@Beta
public interface SchemaSourceRepresentation extends Identifiable<SourceIdentifier>, Immutable {
/**
* {@inheritDoc}
*/
@Override
SourceIdentifier getIdentifier();
/**
* Return the concrete representation type.
*
* @return The type of representation.
*/
@Nonnull Class<? extends SchemaSourceRepresentation> getType();
/**
* Return the symbolic name, if available. This name has no semantic meaning beyond being useful for debugging
* by humans.
*
* @return Symbolic name, if available
*/
default Optional<String> getSymbolicName() {
return Optional.empty();
}
}