Moving Extensions codecs to net/flow to avoid circular dependencies
Change-Id: I93dc5580ff46f57afe93dd4d1f0217359d5c89c2
diff --git a/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/net/flow/ExtensionTreatmentCodec.java b/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/net/flow/ExtensionTreatmentCodec.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2017-present Open Networking Laboratory
+ *
+ * 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.onosproject.net.flow;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
+import org.onosproject.codec.CodecContext;
+import org.onosproject.net.driver.HandlerBehaviour;
+import org.onosproject.net.flow.instructions.ExtensionTreatment;
+
+/**
+ * Interface for encode and decode extension treatment.
+ */
+public interface ExtensionTreatmentCodec extends HandlerBehaviour {
+
+ /**
+ * Encodes an extension treatment to an JSON object.
+ *
+ * @param extensionTreatment extension treatment
+ * @param context encoding context
+ * @return JSON object
+ */
+ default ObjectNode encode(ExtensionTreatment extensionTreatment, CodecContext context) {
+ return null;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Decodes an JSON object to an extension treatment.
+ *
+ * @param objectNode JSON object
+ * @param context decoding context
+ * @return extension treatment
+ */
+ default ExtensionTreatment decode(ObjectNode objectNode, CodecContext context) {
+ return null;
+ }
+}