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+/*\r
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 Pantheon Technologies s.r.o. and others. All rights reserved.\r
+ *\r
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the\r
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,\r
+ * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html\r
+ */\r
+\r
+package org.opendaylight.openflowjava.protocol.impl.serialization.action;\r
+\r
+import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;\r
+\r
+import org.opendaylight.openflowjava.protocol.api.extensibility.HeaderSerializer;\r
+import org.opendaylight.openflowjava.protocol.api.extensibility.OFSerializer;\r
+import org.opendaylight.openflowjava.protocol.impl.util.ActionConstants;\r
+import org.opendaylight.yang.gen.v1.urn.opendaylight.openflow.common.action.rev130731.actions.grouping.Action;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * @author michal.polkorab\r
+ *\r
+ */\r
+public abstract class AbstractActionSerializer implements OFSerializer<Action>,\r
+ HeaderSerializer<Action>{\r
+\r
+ @Override\r
+ public void serialize(Action input, ByteBuf outBuffer) {\r
+ outBuffer.writeShort(getType());\r
+ outBuffer.writeShort(getLength());\r
+ }\r
+\r
+ @Override\r
+ public void serializeHeader(Action input, ByteBuf outBuffer) {\r
+ outBuffer.writeShort(getType());\r
+ outBuffer.writeShort(ActionConstants.ACTION_IDS_LENGTH);\r
+ }\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * @return numeric representation of action type\r
+ */\r
+ protected abstract int getType();\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * @return action length\r
+ */\r
+ protected abstract int getLength();\r
+\r
+}\r