org.openflow.protocol.factory

Interface OFVendorActionFactory

public interface OFVendorActionFactory

Interface contract for an actionfactory that creates vendor-specific actions. VendorActionFactories are registered with the BasicFactory for a specific vendor id.

Note: Implementations are expected to be thread-safe.

Author:

Andreas Wundsam

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
OFActionVendor	readFrom(org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer data) parse the data from the wire, create and return a vendor-specific action.

Method Detail

readFrom

OFActionVendor readFrom(org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer data)

parse the data from the wire, create and return a vendor-specific action.

Parameters:

data - contains a serialized vendor action at the current readerPosition. The full message is guaranteed to be available in the buffer.

Returns:

upon success returns a newly allocated vendor-specific action instance, and advances the readerPosition in data for the entire length. Upon failure, returns null and leaves the readerPosition in data unmodified.