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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
+ */
+package org.opendaylight.protocol.framework;
+
+import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
+import io.netty.channel.ChannelHandler.Sharable;
+import io.netty.channel.ChannelHandlerContext;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.MessageToByteEncoder;
+
+/**
+ *
+ */
+@Sharable
+public class SimpleMessageToByteEncoder extends MessageToByteEncoder<SimpleMessage> {
+ @Override
+ protected void encode(final ChannelHandlerContext ctx, final SimpleMessage msg, final ByteBuf out) {
+ out.writeBytes(msg.getMessage().getBytes());
+ }
+}