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# Copyright 2014 ZHAW SoE
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# Authors: Lucas Graf <graflu0@students.zhaw.ch>
#          Toni Zehnder <zehndton@students.zhaw.ch>
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"""Inspector abstraction for read-only access to hardware components"""

import abc

import six


@six.add_metaclass(abc.ABCMeta)
class Inspector(object):
    @abc.abstractmethod
    def inspect_generic(self, host, identifier, cache, extra_metadata=None):
        """A generic inspect function.

        :param host: the target host
        :param identifier: the identifier of the metric
        :param cache: cache passed from the pollster
        :param extra_metadata: extra dict to be used as metadata
        :return: an iterator of (value, metadata, extra)
        :return value: the sample value
        :return metadata: dict to construct sample's metadata
        :return extra: dict of extra metadata to help constructing sample
        """