ContextChainHolder (openflowplugin 0.14.4-SNAPSHOT API)

All Superinterfaces:

AutoCloseable, ContextChainMastershipWatcher, DeviceConnectedHandler, DeviceDisconnectedHandler, DeviceRemovedHandler, org.opendaylight.mdsal.eos.binding.api.EntityOwnershipListener, org.opendaylight.mdsal.eos.common.api.GenericEntityOwnershipListener<org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.binding.InstanceIdentifier<?>,org.opendaylight.mdsal.eos.binding.api.EntityOwnershipChange>

All Known Implementing Classes:

ContextChainHolderImpl
```
public interface ContextChainHolder
extends DeviceConnectedHandler, ContextChainMastershipWatcher, DeviceDisconnectedHandler, DeviceRemovedHandler, org.opendaylight.mdsal.eos.binding.api.EntityOwnershipListener, AutoCloseable
```
Generic interface for context chain holder, hold all created context chains. ContextChain is context that suppose to hold old information about device such as
Each context is created right after device connect and hold information about particular part of device.
Since:

0.4.0 Carbon

See Also:

StatisticsContext, RpcContext, DeviceContext

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`<T extends OFPManager> void`	`addManager(T manager)`	Managers need to be added before.
`void`	`close()`
`ContextChain`	`getContextChain(DeviceInfo deviceInfo)`	Return the `ContextChain` for a given `DeviceInfo`.

Methods inherited from interface org.opendaylight.openflowplugin.api.openflow.lifecycle.ContextChainMastershipWatcher
onMasterRoleAcquired, onNotAbleToStartMastership, onNotAbleToStartMastershipMandatory, onSlaveRoleAcquired, onSlaveRoleNotAcquired

Methods inherited from interface org.opendaylight.openflowplugin.api.openflow.device.handlers.DeviceConnectedHandler
deviceConnected

Methods inherited from interface org.opendaylight.openflowplugin.api.openflow.device.handlers.DeviceDisconnectedHandler
onDeviceDisconnected

Methods inherited from interface org.opendaylight.openflowplugin.api.openflow.device.handlers.DeviceRemovedHandler
onDeviceRemoved

Methods inherited from interface org.opendaylight.mdsal.eos.binding.api.EntityOwnershipListener
ownershipChanged

- Method Detail
  - addManager
```
<T extends OFPManager> void addManager(T manager)
```
    Managers need to be added before. DeviceManager RpcManager StatisticsManager
    
    Type Parameters:
    
    T - OFPManager
    
    Parameters:
    
    manager - a child class of OFPManager
  - getContextChain
```
ContextChain getContextChain(DeviceInfo deviceInfo)
```
    Return the ContextChain for a given DeviceInfo.
    
    Returns:
    
    ContextChain
  - close
```
void close()
```
    Specified by:
    
    close in interface AutoCloseable