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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 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.cluster.datastore.utils;
+
+import akka.actor.UntypedActor;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * MessageCollectorActor collects messages as it receives them. It can send
+ * those collected messages to any sender which sends it the "messages" message
+ * <p>
+ * This class would be useful as a mock to test whether messages were sent
+ * to a remote actor or not.
+ * </p>
+ */
+public class MessageCollectorActor extends UntypedActor {
+ private List<Object> messages = new ArrayList<>();
+
+ @Override public void onReceive(Object message) throws Exception {
+ if(message instanceof String){
+ if("messages".equals(message)){
+ getSender().tell(messages, getSelf());
+ }
+ } else {
+ messages.add(message);
+ }
+ }
+}