If the next message to be processed has type 'pkt_cls', raise 'state'.
        If there is no message waiting to be processed, we try to get one with
        the default 'get_next_msg' parameters.

def raise_on_packet(self, pkt_cls, state, get_next_msg=True):
        """
        If the next message to be processed has type 'pkt_cls', raise 'state'.
        If there is no message waiting to be processed, we try to get one with
        the default 'get_next_msg' parameters.
        """
        # Maybe we already parsed the expected packet, maybe not.
        if get_next_msg:
            self.get_next_msg()
        if (not self.buffer_in or
                not isinstance(self.buffer_in[0], pkt_cls)):
            return
        self.cur_pkt = self.buffer_in[0]
        self.buffer_in = self.buffer_in[1:]
        raise state()