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+
+/*
+ * 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
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @file IDataPacketListen.java
+ *
+ * @brief Interface to dispatch locally in the protocol plugin the
+ * data packets, intended especially for Discovery, main difference
+ * here with the analogous of SAL is that this is Global
+ * inherently
+ *
+ */
+package org.opendaylight.controller.protocol_plugin.openflow;
+
+import org.opendaylight.controller.sal.packet.RawPacket;
+import org.opendaylight.controller.sal.packet.PacketResult;
+
+/**
+ * Interface to dispatch locally in the protocol plugin the
+ * data packets, intended especially for Discovery, main difference
+ * here with the analogous of SAL is that this is Global
+ * inherently.
+ */
+public interface IDataPacketListen {
+ /**
+ * Dispatch received data packet
+ *
+ * @param inPkt
+ * The incoming raw packet
+ * @return Possible results for Data packet processing handler
+ */
+ public PacketResult receiveDataPacket(RawPacket inPkt);
+}