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+package org.openecomp.sdc.be.components.property;
+
+import fj.data.Either;
+import org.openecomp.sdc.be.model.Component;
+import org.openecomp.sdc.be.model.ComponentInstancePropInput;
+import org.openecomp.sdc.be.model.InputDefinition;
+import org.openecomp.sdc.be.model.operations.api.StorageOperationStatus;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+public interface PropertyDecelerator {
+
+    /**
+     * creates a list of inputs from the given list of properties and updates the properties accordingly
+     * @param component the container
+     * @param propertiesOwnerId the id of the owner of the properties to declare (e.g ComponentInstance, Policy, Group etc)
+     * @param propsToDeclare the list of properties that are being declared as inputs
+     * @return the list of inputs that were created from the given properties
+     */
+    Either<List<InputDefinition>, StorageOperationStatus> declarePropertiesAsInputs(Component component, String propertiesOwnerId, List<ComponentInstancePropInput> propsToDeclare);
+
+    /**
+     * returns the values of declared properties to each original state before it was declared as an input.
+     * this function is to be called when an input, that was created by declaring a property, is deleted.
+     * @param component the container of the input to be deleted
+     * @param input the input to be deleted
+     */
+    StorageOperationStatus unDeclarePropertiesAsInputs(Component component, InputDefinition input);
+
+}