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 org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.binding.DataObject;
13 import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
16 * Uniform interface for serializers
17 * @author michal.polkorab
18 * @author timotej.kubas
19 * @param <SERIALIZER_TYPE> message type
21 public interface OFSerializer <SERIALIZER_TYPE extends DataObject> extends OFGeneralSerializer {
24 * Transforms POJO/DTO into byte message (ByteBuf).
25 * @param input object to be serialized
26 * @param outBuffer output buffer
28 void serialize(SERIALIZER_TYPE input, ByteBuf outBuffer);