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* Originally created by David Erickson, Stanford University
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package org.sdnplatform.core;
/**
* Used in conjunction with {@link IOFMessageListener} to allow a listener to
* filter an incoming message based on the {@link IOFSwitch} it originated from.
* Implementations wanting to use this interface should implement both
* IOFMessageListener and IOFSwitchFilter.
*
* @author David Erickson (daviderickson@cs.stanford.edu)
*/
public interface IOFSwitchFilter {
/**
* The result of this method call determines whether the
* IOFMessageListener's receive method is called or not.
*
* @param sw switch to filter on
* @return true to receive the message, false to ignore
*/
public boolean isInterested(IOFSwitch sw);
}