ShardStrategy (controller-docs 2.0.2 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultShardStrategy, ModuleShardStrategy, PrefixShardStrategy
```
public interface ShardStrategy
```
The role of ShardStrategy is to figure out which shards a given piece of data belongs to.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`String`	`findShard(YangInstanceIdentifier path)`	Find the name of the shard in which the data pointed to by the specified path belongs in.
`YangInstanceIdentifier`	`getPrefixForPath(YangInstanceIdentifier path)`	Get the prefix of the shard that contains the data pointed to by the specified path.

- Method Detail
  - findShard
```
String findShard(YangInstanceIdentifier path)
```
    Find the name of the shard in which the data pointed to by the specified path belongs in.
    Should return the name of the default shard DefaultShardStrategy.DEFAULT_SHARD if no matching shard was found
    
    Parameters:
    
    path - the location of the data in the logical tree
    
    Returns:
    
    the corresponding shard name.
  - getPrefixForPath
```
YangInstanceIdentifier getPrefixForPath(YangInstanceIdentifier path)
```
    Get the prefix of the shard that contains the data pointed to by the specified path.
    
    Parameters:
    
    path - the location of the data in the logical tree.
    
    Returns:
    
    the corresponding shards prefix.