Move adsal into its own subdirectory.

[controller.git] / opendaylight / adsal / sal / api / src / main / java / org / opendaylight / controller / sal / utils / IObjectReader.java

diff --git a/opendaylight/adsal/sal/api/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/controller/sal/utils/IObjectReader.java b/opendaylight/adsal/sal/api/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/controller/sal/utils/IObjectReader.java
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+
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others.  All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
+ * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ */
+
+package org.opendaylight.controller.sal.utils;
+
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
+
+/**
+ * This interface is needed to allow object reconstruction when reading serialized objects from
+ * inside a package other than the one where ObjectReader is defined (otherwise you hit the
+ * java.lang.ClassNotFoundException). This interface will allow to deserialize a class from inside
+ * the package where the class is defined. All the exception handling can still happen in
+ * ObjectReader and the implementer of IObjectReader only need to throws such exceptions
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+public interface IObjectReader {
+    public Object readObject(ObjectInputStream ois)
+            throws FileNotFoundException, IOException, ClassNotFoundException;
+}