org.openflow.protocol.factory

Interface OFMessageFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicFactory, OVXMessageFactory

public interface OFMessageFactory

The interface to factories used for retrieving OFMessage 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
OFActionFactory	getActionFactory() Retrieves an OFActionFactory
OFMessage	getMessage(OFType t) Retrieves an OFMessage instance corresponding to the specified OFType
List<OFMessage>	parseMessage(org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer data) Attempts to parse and return a OFMessages contained in the given ChannelBuffer, beginning at the ChannelBuffer's position, and ending at the after the first parsed message

Method Detail

getMessage

OFMessage getMessage(OFType t)

Retrieves an OFMessage instance corresponding to the specified OFType

Parameters:

t - the type of the OFMessage to be retrieved

Returns:

an OFMessage instance

parseMessage

List<OFMessage> parseMessage(org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer data)
                             throws MessageParseException

Attempts to parse and return a OFMessages contained in the given ChannelBuffer, beginning at the ChannelBuffer's position, and ending at the after the first parsed message

Parameters:

data - the ChannelBuffer to parse for an OpenFlow message

Returns:

a list of OFMessage instances

Throws:

MessageParseException

getActionFactory

OFActionFactory getActionFactory()

Retrieves an OFActionFactory

Returns:

an OFActionFactory