org.openflow.protocol.factory

Interface OFActionFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicFactory, OVXMessageFactory

public interface OFActionFactory

The interface to factories used for retrieving OFAction instances. All methods are expected to be thread-safe.

Author:

David Erickson (daviderickson@cs.stanford.edu)

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
OFAction	getAction(OFActionType t) Retrieves an OFAction instance corresponding to the specified OFActionType
List<OFAction>	parseActions(org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer data, int length) Attempts to parse and return all OFActions contained in the given ByteBuffer, beginning at the ByteBuffer's position, and ending at position+length.
List<OFAction>	parseActions(org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer data, int length, int limit) Attempts to parse and return all OFActions contained in the given ByteBuffer, beginning at the ByteBuffer's position, and ending at position+length.

Method Detail

getAction

OFAction getAction(OFActionType t)

Retrieves an OFAction instance corresponding to the specified OFActionType

Parameters:

t - the type of the OFAction to be retrieved

Returns:

an OFAction instance

parseActions

List<OFAction> parseActions(org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer data,
                          int length)

Attempts to parse and return all OFActions contained in the given ByteBuffer, beginning at the ByteBuffer's position, and ending at position+length.

Parameters:

data - the ChannelBuffer to parse for OpenFlow actions

length - the number of Bytes to examine for OpenFlow actions

Returns:

a list of OFAction instances

parseActions

List<OFAction> parseActions(org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer data,
                          int length,
                          int limit)

Attempts to parse and return all OFActions contained in the given ByteBuffer, beginning at the ByteBuffer's position, and ending at position+length.

Parameters:

data - the ChannelBuffer to parse for OpenFlow actions

length - the number of Bytes to examine for OpenFlow actions

limit - the maximum number of messages to return, 0 means no limit

Returns:

a list of OFAction instances