ofproto_base.rst

OpenFlow version independent classes and functions

Base class for OpenFlow messages

MsgBase

_TYPE

_TYPE class attribute is used to annotate types of attributes.

This type information is used to find an appropriate conversion for a JSON style dictionary.

Currently the following types are implemented.

Type	Descrption
ascii	US-ASCII
utf-8	UTF-8

Example:

_TYPE = {
    'ascii': [
        'hw_addr',
    ],
    'utf-8': [
        'name',
    ]
}

Functions

ofp_msg_from_jsondict