/**

 * @author cramakrishnan

 *

 * Copyright (C) 2003, C. Ramakrishnan / Illposed Software

 * All rights reserved.

 * 

 * See license.txt (or license.rtf) for license information.

 * 

 * 

 * OscPacket is the abstract superclass for the various

 * kinds of OSC Messages. Its direct subclasses are:

 *  OscMessage, OscBundle

 *

 * Subclasses need to know how to produce a byte array

 * in the format specified by the OSC spec (or SuperCollider

 * documentation, as the case may be).

 *

 * This implementation is based on Markus Gaelli and

 * Iannis Zannos' OSC implementation in Squeak:

 * http://www.emergent.de/Goodies/

 */

package com.illposed.osc;

import com.illposed.osc.utility.*;

public abstract class OSCPacket {

    protected byte[] byteArray;

    public OSCPacket() {

        super();

    }

    protected void computeByteArray() {

        OSCJavaToByteArrayConverter stream = new OSCJavaToByteArrayConverter();

        computeByteArray(stream);

    }

    /**

     * @param stream OscPacketByteArrayConverter

     *

     * Subclasses should implement this method to product a byte array

     * formatted according to the OSC/SuperCollider specification.

     */

    protected abstract void computeByteArray(OSCJavaToByteArrayConverter stream);

    /**

     * @return byte[]

     */

    public byte[] getByteArray() {

        computeByteArray();

        return byteArray;

    }

    protected void init() {

    }