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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.netconf.nettyutil.handler.ssh.client;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ * Abstract class providing mechanism of invoking various SSH level services.
+ * Class is not allowed to be extended, as it provides its own implementations via instance initiators.
+ */
+public abstract class Invoker {
+ private boolean invoked = false;
+
+ private Invoker(){}
+
+ protected boolean isInvoked() {
+ // TODO invoked is always false
+ return invoked;
+ }
+
+ abstract void invoke(SshSession session) throws IOException;
+
+ /**
+ * Invoker implementation to invokes subsystem SSH service.
+ *
+ * @param subsystem
+ * @return
+ */
+ public static Invoker subsystem(final String subsystem) {
+ return new Invoker() {
+ @Override
+ void invoke(SshSession session) throws IOException {
+ if (isInvoked()) {
+ throw new IllegalStateException("Already invoked.");
+ }
+
+ session.startSubSystem(subsystem);
+ }
+ };
+ }
+}