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+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * openECOMP : APP-C
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights
+ * 						reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.openecomp.appc.listener;
+
+/**
+ * This interface defines a listener that subscribes to a DMaaP topic and continually polls for messages. The
+ * listener does all operations in the run() method and long running operations should be created in a separate worker
+ * thread.
+ *
+ */
+public interface Listener extends Runnable {
+
+    /**
+     * Should start a continuous poll to get messages from the message bus only ending when stop() or stopNow() are
+     * called.
+     * 
+     * @see java.lang.Runnable#run()
+     */
+    @Override
+    public void run();
+
+    /**
+     * Signals the listener to stop accepting new messages to the queue and to cleanly finish processing all remaining
+     * messages in the queue. This can take a significant amount of time to complete depending on the thread pool
+     * characteristics. Similar to {@link #stopNow()}
+     */
+    public void stop();
+
+    /**
+     * Signals the listener to stop accepting new messages to the queue and to destroy all remaining messages in the
+     * queue. This will complete quicker than {@link #stop()} at the cost of discarded requests. Recovery of these
+     * requests would have to be caught downstream. Similar to {@link #stop()}
+     */
+    public void stopNow();
+
+    /**
+     * @return A string that shows various benchmarking data. Can be used by humans to tune the thread pool.
+     */
+    public String getBenchmark();
+
+    /**
+     * @return The listener's id when requesting messages from DMaaP. Also known as the group id.
+     */
+    public String getListenerId();
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the listener's id to use when requesting messages from DMaaP. Also known as the group id.
+     * 
+     * @param idString
+     *            The new listener id
+     */
+    public void setListenerId(String idString);
+}