org.openflow.gui.net
Interface MessageProcessor<MSG_TYPE extends Message>

All Known Implementing Classes:

ConnectionHandler

public interface MessageProcessor<MSG_TYPE extends Message>

Interface for a class which can process protocol messages.

Author:

David Underhill

Method Summary

void	connectionStateChange() Process a change in the connection status
MSG_TYPE	decode(int len, java.io.DataInput in) Constructs the object representing the received message.
void	process(MSG_TYPE msg) Process a protocol message

Method Detail

connectionStateChange

void connectionStateChange()

Process a change in the connection status

decode

MSG_TYPE decode(int len,
                java.io.DataInput in)
                                throws java.io.IOException

Constructs the object representing the received message. The message is known to be of length len and len - 4 bytes representing the rest of the message should be extracted from buf.

Throws:

java.io.IOException

process

void process(MSG_TYPE msg)

Process a protocol message