/*
* Copyright (c) 2013 Pantheon Technologies s.r.o. and others. All rights reserved.
*
* This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
* terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
* and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*/
package org.opendaylight.openflowjava.protocol.api.extensibility;
import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.binding.DataContainer;
/**
* Uniform interface for serializers
* @author michal.polkorab
* @author timotej.kubas
* @param <T> message type
*/
public interface OFSerializer<T extends DataContainer> extends OFGeneralSerializer {
/**
* Transforms POJO/DTO into byte message (ByteBuf).
* @param input object to be serialized
* @param outBuffer output buffer
*/
void serialize(T input, ByteBuf outBuffer);
}