GUI -- Preliminary work for converting tabular views to use the shared web-socket rather than via REST. WIP.
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2015 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.ui.impl;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ArrayNode;
+import org.onosproject.ui.UiMessageHandler;
+
+import java.util.Set;
+
+/**
+ * Base message handler for tabular views.
+ */
+public abstract class AbstractTabularViewMessageHandler extends UiMessageHandler {
+
+ /**
+ * Creates a new tabular view message handler.
+ *
+ * @param messageTypes set of message types
+ */
+ protected AbstractTabularViewMessageHandler(Set<String> messageTypes) {
+ super(messageTypes);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Produces JSON from the specified array of rows.
+ *
+ * @param rows table rows
+ * @return JSON array
+ */
+ protected ArrayNode generateArrayNode(TableRow[] rows) {
+ ArrayNode array = mapper.createArrayNode();
+ for (TableRow r : rows) {
+ array.add(r.toJsonNode());
+ }
+ return array;
+ }
+
+ // TODO: possibly convert this into just a toolbox class
+ // TODO: extract and generalize other table constructs
+}