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package org.apache.hadoop.net;

import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;

/** The interface defines a node in a network topology.
 * A node may be a leave representing a data node or an inner
 * node representing a datacenter or rack.
 * Each data has a name and its location in the network is
 * decided by a string with syntax similar to a file name. 
 * For example, a data node's name is hostname:port# and if it's located at
 * rack "orange" in datacenter "dog", the string representation of its
 * network location is /dog/orange
 */

@InterfaceAudience.LimitedPrivate({"HDFS", "MapReduce"})
@InterfaceStability.Unstable
public interface Node {
  /** Return the string representation of this node's network location */
  public String getNetworkLocation();
  /** Set the node's network location */
  public void setNetworkLocation(String location);
  /** Return this node's name */
  public String getName();
  /** Return this node's parent */
  public Node getParent();
  /** Set this node's parent */
  public void setParent(Node parent);
  /** Return this node's level in the tree.
   * E.g. the root of a tree returns 0 and its children return 1
   */
  public int getLevel();
  /** Set this node's level in the tree.*/
  public void setLevel(int i);
}