2 * Copyright (c) 2013 Pantheon Technologies s.r.o. and others. All rights reserved.
4 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
5 * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
6 * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
8 package org.opendaylight.openflowjava.protocol.api.extensibility;
10 import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
11 import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.binding.DataObject;
14 * Does only-header serialization (such as oxm_ids, action_ids, instruction_ids)
15 * @author michal.polkorab
16 * @param <T> input message type
18 public interface HeaderSerializer<T extends DataObject> extends OFGeneralSerializer {
21 * Serializes object headers (e.g. for Multipart message - Table Features)
22 * @param input object whose headers should be serialized
23 * @param outBuffer output buffer
25 void serializeHeader(T input, ByteBuf outBuffer);