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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.util;\r
+\r
+import org.opendaylight.openflowjava.protocol.api.extensibility.MessageTypeKey;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * @author michal.polkorab\r
+ * @param <T> \r
+ */\r
+public interface TypeKeyMaker<T> {\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * @param entry\r
+ * @return key that will be used for serializer lookup in \r
+ * the serializer registry\r
+ */\r
+ public abstract MessageTypeKey<?> make(T entry);\r
+\r
+}\r