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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package io.fd.honeycomb.v3po.impl.trans;
+
+import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;
+import java.util.List;
+import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.binding.DataObject;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.binding.InstanceIdentifier;
+
+/**
+ * Base VPP reader, responsible for translation between DataObjects and VPP apis
+ */
+@Beta
+public interface VppReader<D extends DataObject> {
+
+    // TODO add vpp read context that will be shared by all readers during a single read to keep useful information
+    // preventing possible duplicate reads from VPP
+    // TODO make async
+
+    /**
+     * Reads from VPP data identified by id
+     *
+     * @param id unique identifier of subtree to be read.
+     *           The subtree must contain managed data object type enforcing it to point
+     *           to the node type managed by this reader or below. For identifiers pointing below
+     *           node managed by this reader, its reader's responsibility to filter out the right
+     *           node or to delegate the read to a child reader.
+     *
+     * @return  List of DataObjects identified by id. If the ID points to a single node, it will be wrapped in a list
+     */
+    @Nonnull List<? extends DataObject> read(@Nonnull final InstanceIdentifier<? extends DataObject> id);
+
+
+    /**
+     * Get the type of node managed by this reader
+     *
+     * @return Class object for node managed by this reader
+     */
+    @Nonnull InstanceIdentifier<D> getManagedDataObjectType();
+}