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* 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.yangtools.concepts;
import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNull;
/**
* Class representing a registration of an object. Such a registration is a proper resource and should be cleaned up
* when no longer required, so references to the object can be removed. This mechanism lies above the usual Java
* reference mechanism, as the entity where the object is registered may reside outside of the Java Virtual Machine.
*
* @param Type of registered object
*/
public interface ObjectRegistration extends Registration {
/**
* Return the object instance.
*
* @return Registered object.
*/
@NonNull T getInstance();
}