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.impl.deserialization;
11 import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.binding.DataObject;
13 import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
16 * Uniform interface for deserializing factories
17 * @author michal.polkorab
18 * @author timotej.kubas
19 * @param <E> message code type
21 public interface OFDeserializer<E extends DataObject> {
24 * Transforms byte message into POJO/DTO (of type E).
25 * Assumes that input ByteBuf's readerIndex is pointing on length in OpenFlow header
27 * @param rawMessage message as bytes in ByteBuf
28 * @param version version of used OF Protocol
29 * @return HelloMessage as DataObject
31 public abstract E bufferToMessage(ByteBuf rawMessage, short version);