Work toward Issue #215 and Issue #216:
* Implemented the top-level API to support matching conditions and
actions for flows.
* Added Json serializer/deserializer for MACAddress.
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/floodlightcontroller/util/serializers/MACAddressDeserializer.java b/src/main/java/net/floodlightcontroller/util/serializers/MACAddressDeserializer.java
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+package net.floodlightcontroller.util.serializers;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonNode;
+import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParser;
+import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonToken;
+import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonProcessingException;
+import org.codehaus.jackson.ObjectCodec;
+import org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonDeserializer;
+import org.codehaus.jackson.map.DeserializationContext;
+
+import net.floodlightcontroller.util.MACAddress;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+/**
+ * Deserialize a MAC address from a string.
+ */
+public class MACAddressDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer<MACAddress> {
+
+ protected static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MACAddressDeserializer.class);
+
+ @Override
+ public MACAddress deserialize(JsonParser jp,
+ DeserializationContext ctxt)
+ throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
+
+ MACAddress mac = null;
+
+ jp.nextToken(); // Move to JsonToken.START_OBJECT
+ while (jp.nextToken() != JsonToken.END_OBJECT) {
+ String fieldname = jp.getCurrentName();
+ if ("value".equals(fieldname)) {
+ String value = jp.getText();
+ log.debug("Fieldname: " + fieldname + " Value: " + value);
+ mac = MACAddress.valueOf(value);
+ }
+ }
+ return mac;
+ }
+}