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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2017 Inocybe Technologies 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.cluster.raft.behaviors;
+
+import java.io.Externalizable;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.ObjectInput;
+import java.io.ObjectOutput;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.util.AbstractStringIdentifier;
+
+/**
+ * An Identifier for a follower.
+ *
+ * @author Thomas Pantelis
+ */
+class FollowerIdentifier extends AbstractStringIdentifier<FollowerIdentifier> {
+ private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+ FollowerIdentifier(String followerId) {
+ super(followerId);
+ }
+
+ private Object writeReplace() {
+ return new Proxy(this);
+ }
+
+ private static class Proxy implements Externalizable {
+ private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+ private FollowerIdentifier identifier;
+
+ // checkstyle flags the public modifier as redundant which really doesn't make sense since it clearly isn't
+ // redundant. It is explicitly needed for Java serialization to be able to create instances via reflection.
+ @SuppressWarnings("checkstyle:RedundantModifier")
+ public Proxy() {
+ }
+
+ Proxy(FollowerIdentifier identifier) {
+ this.identifier = identifier;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void writeExternal(ObjectOutput out) throws IOException {
+ out.writeObject(identifier.getValue());
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void readExternal(ObjectInput in) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
+ identifier = new FollowerIdentifier((String) in.readObject());
+ }
+
+ private Object readResolve() {
+ return identifier;
+ }
+ }
+}