Revisit Exception handling in BitBufferHelper and Packet

[controller.git] / opendaylight / sal / api / src / main / java / org / opendaylight / controller / sal / packet / PacketException.java

diff --git a/opendaylight/sal/api/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/controller/sal/packet/PacketException.java b/opendaylight/sal/api/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/controller/sal/packet/PacketException.java
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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.sal.packet;
+
+/**
+ * Describes an exception that is raised when the process of serializing or
+ * deserializing a network packet/stream fails. This generally happens when the
+ * packet/stream is malformed.
+ * 
+ */
+public class PacketException extends Exception {
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+    public PacketException(String message) {
+        super(message);
+    }
+}