Import Floodlight v0.90
diff --git a/src/ext/floodlight/src/main/java/net/floodlightcontroller/core/internal/OFMessageEncoder.java b/src/ext/floodlight/src/main/java/net/floodlightcontroller/core/internal/OFMessageEncoder.java
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+/**
+*    Copyright 2011, Big Switch Networks, Inc. 
+*    Originally created by David Erickson, Stanford 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 net.floodlightcontroller.core.internal;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer;
+import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffers;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelHandlerContext;
+import org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.oneone.OneToOneEncoder;
+import org.openflow.protocol.OFMessage;
+
+/**
+ * Encode an openflow message for output into a ChannelBuffer, for use in a
+ * netty pipeline
+ * @author readams
+ */
+public class OFMessageEncoder extends OneToOneEncoder {
+
+    @Override
+    protected Object encode(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, Channel channel,
+                            Object msg) throws Exception {
+        if (!(  msg instanceof List))
+            return msg;
+
+        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+        List<OFMessage> msglist = (List<OFMessage>)msg;
+        int size = 0;
+        for (OFMessage ofm :  msglist) {
+                size += ofm.getLengthU();
+        }
+
+        ChannelBuffer buf = ChannelBuffers.buffer(size);;
+        for (OFMessage ofm :  msglist) {
+            ofm.writeTo(buf);
+        }
+        return buf;
+    }
+
+}