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Umesh Krishnaswamy345ee992012-12-13 20:29:48 -08001/**
2* Copyright (c) 2008 The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior
3* University
4*
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17
18package org.openflow.protocol.factory;
19
20import java.util.List;
21
22import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer;
23import org.openflow.protocol.OFType;
24import org.openflow.protocol.statistics.OFStatistics;
25import org.openflow.protocol.statistics.OFStatisticsType;
26
27
28/**
29 * The interface to factories used for retrieving OFStatistics instances. All
30 * methods are expected to be thread-safe.
31 * @author David Erickson (daviderickson@cs.stanford.edu)
32 */
33public interface OFStatisticsFactory {
34 /**
35 * Retrieves an OFStatistics instance corresponding to the specified
36 * OFStatisticsType
37 * @param t the type of the containing OFMessage, only accepts statistics
38 * request or reply
39 * @param st the type of the OFStatistics to be retrieved
40 * @return an OFStatistics instance
41 */
42 public OFStatistics getStatistics(OFType t, OFStatisticsType st);
43
44 /**
45 * Attempts to parse and return all OFStatistics contained in the given
46 * ByteBuffer, beginning at the ByteBuffer's position, and ending at
47 * position+length.
48 * @param t the type of the containing OFMessage, only accepts statistics
49 * request or reply
50 * @param st the type of the OFStatistics to be retrieved
51 * @param data the ChannelBuffer to parse for OpenFlow Statistics
52 * @param length the number of Bytes to examine for OpenFlow Statistics
53 * @return a list of OFStatistics instances
54 */
55 public List<OFStatistics> parseStatistics(OFType t,
56 OFStatisticsType st, ChannelBuffer data, int length);
57
58 /**
59 * Attempts to parse and return all OFStatistics contained in the given
60 * ByteBuffer, beginning at the ByteBuffer's position, and ending at
61 * position+length.
62 * @param t the type of the containing OFMessage, only accepts statistics
63 * request or reply
64 * @param st the type of the OFStatistics to be retrieved
65 * @param data the ChannelBuffer to parse for OpenFlow Statistics
66 * @param length the number of Bytes to examine for OpenFlow Statistics
67 * @param limit the maximum number of messages to return, 0 means no limit
68 * @return a list of OFStatistics instances
69 */
70 public List<OFStatistics> parseStatistics(OFType t,
71 OFStatisticsType st, ChannelBuffer data, int length, int limit);
72}