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// This code has been copied from hadoop-common 0.23.1
package org.apache.bookkeeper.net;

import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;

/** 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
 */
@Beta
public interface Node {
    /** @return the string representation of this node's network location */
    public String getNetworkLocation();

    /** Set this node's network location
     * @param location the 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
     * @param parent the 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
     * @param i the level
     */
    public void setLevel(int i);
}
