/* * Copyright (c) 2013 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.controller.sal.common.util; public class Arguments { private Arguments() { throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Utility class"); } /** * Checks if value is instance of provided class * * * @param value Value to check * @param type Type to check * @return Reference which was checked */ @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public static T checkInstanceOf(Object value, Class type) { if(!type.isInstance(value)) throw new IllegalArgumentException(); return (T) value; } }