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-/**
-* Copyright (c) 2008 The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior
-* University
-*
-* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
-* not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
-* a copy of the License at
-*
-* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-*
-* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
-* WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
-* License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
-* under the License.
-**/
-
-package org.openflow.protocol.factory;
-
-import java.util.List;
-
-import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer;
-import org.openflow.protocol.OFMessage;
-import org.openflow.protocol.OFType;
-
-
-/**
- * The interface to factories used for retrieving OFMessage instances. All
- * methods are expected to be thread-safe.
- * @author David Erickson (daviderickson@cs.stanford.edu)
- */
-public interface OFMessageFactory {
- /**
- * Retrieves an OFMessage instance corresponding to the specified OFType
- * @param t the type of the OFMessage to be retrieved
- * @return an OFMessage instance
- */
- public OFMessage getMessage(OFType t);
-
- /**
- * Attempts to parse and return a OFMessages contained in the given
- * ChannelBuffer, beginning at the ChannelBuffer's position, and ending at the
- * after the first parsed message
- * @param data the ChannelBuffer to parse for an OpenFlow message
- * @return a list of OFMessage instances
- * @throws MessageParseException
- */
- public List<OFMessage> parseMessage(ChannelBuffer data) throws MessageParseException;
-
- /**
- * Retrieves an OFActionFactory
- * @return an OFActionFactory
- */
- public OFActionFactory getActionFactory();
-}