IMDMessageTranslator.java example

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/**
 * Copyright (c) 2013 Cisco Systems, Inc. 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.openflowplugin.api.openflow.md.core;

import org.opendaylight.openflowplugin.api.openflow.md.core.session.SessionContext;

/**
 * translates between messages.
 * @param <I> source message type (IN)
 * @param <O> result message type (OUT)
 */
public interface IMDMessageTranslator<I, O> {

    /**
     * This method is called in order to translate message to MD-SAL or from MD-SAL.
     * @param cookie auxiliary connection identifier
     * @param sc The SessionContext which sent the OF message
     * @param msg The OF message
     * @return translated message
     */
    O translate(SwitchConnectionDistinguisher cookie, SessionContext sc, I msg);

}