PacketParser (QpidJMS Discovery Library 2.4.0 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

ActiveMQPacketParser
```
public interface PacketParser
```
Interface for a DatagramPacket parser object which is used by the MulticastDiscoveryAget to parse incoming packets to determine the discovered peer information.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`String`	`getGroup()`
`DiscoveryEvent`	`processPacket(byte[] data, int offset, int length)`	Process in incoming event packet and create a DiscoveryEvent from the data.
`void`	`setGroup(String group)`	Sets the multicast group that the parent agent is assigned to.

- Method Detail
  - getGroup
```
String getGroup()
```
    Returns:
    
    the multicast group assignment for this parser.
  - setGroup
```
void setGroup(String group)
```
    Sets the multicast group that the parent agent is assigned to. This can be used in some cases to parse discovery messages.
    
    Parameters:
    
    group - the multicast group that this parser's parent agent resides in./
  - processPacket
```
DiscoveryEvent processPacket(byte[] data,
                             int offset,
                             int length)
```
    Process in incoming event packet and create a DiscoveryEvent from the data.
    
    Parameters:
    
    data - the new data packet to process.
    
    offset - the offset into the data buffer to start at.
    
    length - the length of the data packet contained in the buffer.
    
    Returns:
    
    a new DiscoveryEvent created from pocessing the incoming data.