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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.controller.protocol_plugin.openflow.core;
-
-import java.util.List;
-
-import org.openflow.protocol.OFMessage;
-
-/**
- * This interface defines low level routines to read/write messages on an open
- * socket channel. If secure communication is desired, these methods also perform
- * encryption and decryption of the network data.
- */
-public interface IMessageReadWrite {
- /**
- * Sends the OF message out over the socket channel. For secure
- * communication, the data will be encrypted.
- *
- * @param msg OF message to be sent
- * @throws Exception
- */
- public void asyncSend(OFMessage msg) throws Exception;
-
- /**
- * Resumes sending the remaining messages in the outgoing buffer
- * @throws Exception
- */
- public void resumeSend() throws Exception;
-
- /**
- * Reads the incoming network data from the socket and retrieves the OF
- * messages. For secure communication, the data will be decrypted first.
- *
- * @return list of OF messages
- * @throws Exception
- */
- public List<OFMessage> readMessages() throws Exception;
-
- /**
- * Proper clean up when the switch connection is closed
- *
- * @return
- * @throws Exception
- */
- public void stop() throws Exception;
-}