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+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 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.openflowjava.nx.codec.action;
+
+import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
+
+import org.opendaylight.openflowjava.nx.NiciraConstants;
+import org.opendaylight.openflowjava.protocol.api.extensibility.OFSerializer;
+import org.opendaylight.openflowjava.protocol.api.util.EncodeConstants;
+import org.opendaylight.yang.gen.v1.urn.opendaylight.openflow.common.action.rev130731.actions.grouping.Action;
+
+/**
+ * @author msunal
+ *
+ */
+public abstract class AbstractActionSerializer implements OFSerializer<Action> {
+
+ protected final static void serializeHeader(int msgLength, int subtype, ByteBuf outBuffer) {
+ outBuffer.writeShort(EncodeConstants.EXPERIMENTER_VALUE);
+ writeMsgLengthVendorIdSubtypeToBuffer(msgLength, subtype, outBuffer);
+ }
+
+ private final static void writeMsgLengthVendorIdSubtypeToBuffer(int msgLength, int subtype, ByteBuf outBuffer) {
+ outBuffer.writeShort(msgLength);
+ outBuffer.writeInt(NiciraConstants.NX_VENDOR_ID.intValue());
+ outBuffer.writeShort(subtype);
+ }
+
+}