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package org.onosproject.bgpio.protocol;

import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer;
import org.onosproject.bgpio.exceptions.BgpParseException;

/**
 * Abstraction of an entity providing functionality to write byte streams of
 * Messages to channel buffer.
 */
public interface Writeable {

    /**
     * Writes byte streams of messages to channel buffer.
     *
     * @param cb channelBuffer
     * @throws BgpParseException when error occurs while writing BGP message to channel buffer
     */
    void writeTo(ChannelBuffer cb) throws BgpParseException;
}