Added cubby-holes for new projects.
diff --git a/of-save/lib/src/main/java/org/projectfloodlight/openflow/util/StringByteSerializer.java b/of-save/lib/src/main/java/org/projectfloodlight/openflow/util/StringByteSerializer.java
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+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2008 The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior
+ * University
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+ * not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+ * a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ **/
+
+package org.projectfloodlight.openflow.util;
+
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+
+import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer;
+
+public class StringByteSerializer {
+ public static String readFrom(final ChannelBuffer data, final int length) {
+ byte[] stringBytes = new byte[length];
+ data.readBytes(stringBytes);
+ // find the first index of 0
+ int index = 0;
+ for (byte b : stringBytes) {
+ if (0 == b)
+ break;
+ ++index;
+ }
+ return new String(Arrays.copyOf(stringBytes, index), Charset.forName("ascii"));
+ }
+
+ public static void writeTo(final ChannelBuffer data, final int length,
+ final String value) {
+ try {
+ byte[] name = value.getBytes("ASCII");
+ if (name.length < length) {
+ data.writeBytes(name);
+ for (int i = name.length; i < length; ++i) {
+ data.writeByte((byte) 0);
+ }
+ } else {
+ data.writeBytes(name, 0, length - 1);
+ data.writeByte((byte) 0);
+ }
+ } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+ throw new RuntimeException(e);
+ }
+
+ }
+}