bgp/bgpio/src/main/java/org/onosproject/bgpio/protocol/BGPMessageReader.java

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package org.onosproject.bgpio.protocol;

import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer;
import org.onosproject.bgpio.exceptions.BGPParseException;
import org.onosproject.bgpio.types.BGPHeader;

/**
 * Abstraction of an entity providing BGP Message Reader.
 */
public interface BGPMessageReader<T> {

    /**
     * Reads the Objects in the BGP Message and Returns BGP Message.
     *
     * @param cb Channel Buffer
     * @param bgpHeader BGP message header
     * @return BGP Message
     * @throws BGPParseException while parsing BGP message.
     */
    T readFrom(ChannelBuffer cb, BGPHeader bgpHeader) throws BGPParseException;
}