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+# Copyright (C) 2011 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation.
+# Copyright (C) 2011 Isaku Yamahata <yamahata at valinux co jp>
+#
+# 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.
+
+
+class EventBase(object):
+ """
+ The base of all event classes.
+
+ A Ryu application can define its own event type by creating a subclass.
+ """
+
+ def __init__(self):
+ super(EventBase, self).__init__()
+
+
+class EventRequestBase(EventBase):
+ """
+ The base class for synchronous request for RyuApp.send_request.
+ """
+
+ def __init__(self):
+ super(EventRequestBase, self).__init__()
+ self.dst = None # app.name of provide the event.
+ self.src = None
+ self.sync = False
+ self.reply_q = None
+
+
+class EventReplyBase(EventBase):
+ """
+ The base class for synchronous request reply for RyuApp.send_reply.
+ """
+
+ def __init__(self, dst):
+ super(EventReplyBase, self).__init__()
+ self.dst = dst