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
9 package org.opendaylight.openflowjava.protocol.api.extensibility;
11 import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
12 import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.binding.DataContainer;
15 * Uniform interface for serializers
16 * @author michal.polkorab
17 * @author timotej.kubas
18 * @param <T> message type
20 public interface OFSerializer<T extends DataContainer> extends OFGeneralSerializer {
23 * Transforms POJO/DTO into byte message (ByteBuf).
24 * @param input object to be serialized
25 * @param outBuffer output buffer
27 void serialize(T input, ByteBuf outBuffer);