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+/**
+* Copyright (c) 2008 The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior
+* University
+*
+* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+* not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+* a copy of the License at
+*
+* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+*
+* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+* WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+* License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+* under the License.
+**/
+
+package org.openflow.protocol.statistics;
+
+import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer;
+
+/**
+ * The base class for all OpenFlow statistics.
+ *
+ * @author David Erickson (daviderickson@cs.stanford.edu) - Mar 11, 2010
+ */
+public interface OFStatistics {
+ /**
+ * Returns the wire length of this message in bytes
+ * @return the length
+ */
+ public int getLength();
+
+ /**
+ * Read this message off the wire from the specified ByteBuffer
+ * @param data
+ */
+ public void readFrom(ChannelBuffer data);
+
+ /**
+ * Write this message's binary format to the specified ByteBuffer
+ * @param data
+ */
+ public void writeTo(ChannelBuffer data);
+}