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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 Pantheon Technologies s.r.o. 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.protocol.impl.deserialization.match;
+
+import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
+
+import org.opendaylight.openflowjava.protocol.api.util.EncodeConstants;
+import org.opendaylight.openflowjava.util.ByteBufUtils;
+import org.opendaylight.yang.gen.v1.urn.ietf.params.xml.ns.yang.ietf.yang.types.rev100924.MacAddress;
+
+/**
+ * @author michal.polkorab
+ *
+ */
+public final class OxmDeserializerHelper {
+
+ private OxmDeserializerHelper() {
+ throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Utility class shouldn't be instantiated");
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Converts binary data into binary mask (for match entries)
+ * @param input input ByteBuf
+ * @param matchEntryLength mask length
+ * @return binary mask
+ */
+ public static byte[] convertMask(ByteBuf input, int matchEntryLength) {
+ byte[] mask = new byte[matchEntryLength];
+ input.readBytes(mask);
+ return mask;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Converts binary data into mac address
+ * @param input input ByteBuf
+ * @return mac address
+ */
+ public static MacAddress convertMacAddress(ByteBuf input) {
+ byte[] address = new byte[EncodeConstants.MAC_ADDRESS_LENGTH];
+ input.readBytes(address);
+ return new MacAddress(ByteBufUtils.macAddressToString(address));
+ }
+}