org.openflow.vendor.nicira

Class OFNiciraVendorData

java.lang.Object

org.openflow.vendor.nicira.OFNiciraVendorData

All Implemented Interfaces:

OFVendorData

Direct Known Subclasses:

OFRoleVendorData

public class OFNiciraVendorData
extends Object
implements OFVendorData

Base class for vendor data corresponding to a Nicira vendor extension. Nicira vendor data always starts with a 4-byte integer data type value.

Author:

Rob Vaterlaus (rob.vaterlaus@bigswitch.com)

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected int	dataType The value of the integer data type at the beginning of the vendor data
static int	NX_VENDOR_ID

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
OFNiciraVendorData() Construct empty (i.e.
OFNiciraVendorData(int dataType) Contruct Nicira vendor data with the specified data type

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	getDataType() Get the data type value at the beginning of the vendor data
int	getLength() Get the length of the vendor data.
void	readFrom(org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer data, int length) Read the vendor data from the ChannelBuffer
void	setDataType(int dataType) Set the data type value
void	writeTo(org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer data) Write the vendor data to the ChannelBuffer

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

NX_VENDOR_ID

public static final int NX_VENDOR_ID

See Also:

Constant Field Values

dataType

protected int dataType

The value of the integer data type at the beginning of the vendor data

Constructor Detail

OFNiciraVendorData

public OFNiciraVendorData()

Construct empty (i.e. unspecified data type) Nicira vendor data.

OFNiciraVendorData

public OFNiciraVendorData(int dataType)

Contruct Nicira vendor data with the specified data type

Parameters:

dataType - the data type value at the beginning of the vendor data.

Method Detail

getDataType

public int getDataType()

Get the data type value at the beginning of the vendor data

Returns:

the integer data type value

setDataType

public void setDataType(int dataType)

Set the data type value

Parameters:

dataType - the integer data type value at the beginning of the vendor data.

getLength

public int getLength()

Get the length of the vendor data. This implementation will normally be the superclass for another class that will override this to return the overall vendor data length. This implementation just returns the length of the part that includes the 4-byte integer data type value at the beginning of the vendor data.

Specified by:

getLength in interface OFVendorData

Returns:

length of the data

readFrom

public void readFrom(org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer data,
            int length)

Read the vendor data from the ChannelBuffer

Specified by:

readFrom in interface OFVendorData

Parameters:

data - the channel buffer from which we're deserializing

length - the length to the end of the enclosing message

writeTo

public void writeTo(org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer data)

Write the vendor data to the ChannelBuffer

Specified by:

writeTo in interface OFVendorData

Parameters:

data - the channel buffer to which we're serializing