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+/**
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * org.onap.aai
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright © 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright © 2017-2018 European Software Marketing Ltd.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * 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.onap.aai.babel.xml.generator.api;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import org.onap.aai.babel.xml.generator.data.Artifact;
+import org.onap.aai.babel.xml.generator.data.GenerationData;
+
+/** Artifact Generation. Note that there is only one implementation of this interface currently. */
+public interface ArtifactGenerator {
+
+ /**
+ * Implementation of the method to generate AAI artifacts.
+ *
+ * @param csarArchive original CSAR (zip format)
+ * @param input List of input tosca files
+ * @param additionalParams
+ * @return Translated/Error data as a {@link GenerationData} object
+ */
+ public GenerationData generateArtifact(byte[] csarArchive, List<Artifact> input,
+ Map<String, String> additionalParams);
+}