Deprecate EmptyExternalizable for removal

This class is not used anywhere, deprecate it for removal.

Change-Id: I3303a14570bfadaa524841e7622f20dd955f67e3
Signed-off-by: Robert Varga <robert.varga@pantheon.tech>

diff --git a/opendaylight/md-sal/sal-distributed-datastore/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/controller/cluster/datastore/messages/EmptyExternalizable.java b/opendaylight/md-sal/sal-distributed-datastore/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/controller/cluster/datastore/messages/EmptyExternalizable.java
index 79f97e84be93a69db7fe148c0c6160653d78abdd..ef0c36bc044035fb0a0af052c3781ebb84a84759 100644 (file)
--- a/opendaylight/md-sal/sal-distributed-datastore/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/controller/cluster/datastore/messages/EmptyExternalizable.java
+++ b/opendaylight/md-sal/sal-distributed-datastore/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/controller/cluster/datastore/messages/EmptyExternalizable.java
@@ -16,15 +16,16 @@ import java.io.ObjectOutput;
  *
  * @author Thomas Pantelis
  */
+@Deprecated(since = "8.0.5", forRemoval = true)
 public class EmptyExternalizable implements Externalizable {
     @java.io.Serial
     private static final long serialVersionUID = 8413772905242947276L;
 
     @Override
-    public void readExternal(ObjectInput in) {
+    public void readExternal(final ObjectInput in) {
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void writeExternal(ObjectOutput out) {
+    public void writeExternal(final ObjectOutput out) {
     }
 }