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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.yang.model.api;

import java.util.Collection;
import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNull;
import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.model.api.stmt.DeviationEffectiveStatement;
import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.model.api.stmt.SchemaNodeIdentifier.Absolute;

/**
 * Interface describing YANG 'deviation' statement.
 *
 * 
 * The 'deviation' statement defines a hierarchy of a module that the device does not implement faithfully. Deviations
 * define the way a device deviate from a standard.
 */
public interface Deviation extends DocumentedNode, EffectiveStatementEquivalent {
    /**
     * Returns target node absolute schema node identifier.
     *
     * @return An identifier that points to the node in the schema tree where a deviation from the module occurs.
     */
    default @NonNull Absolute getTargetPath() {
        return asEffectiveStatement().argument();
    }

    /**
     * Returns deviate children.
     *
     * @return Collection of all deviate statements defined in this deviation.
     */
    @NonNull Collection getDeviates();
}