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diff --git a/restconf-client/provider/src/main/java/org/onap/ccsdk/sli/plugins/yangserializers/dfserializer/DataFormatSerializer.java b/restconf-client/provider/src/main/java/org/onap/ccsdk/sli/plugins/yangserializers/dfserializer/DataFormatSerializer.java
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+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP - CCSDK
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2018 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.ccsdk.sli.plugins.yangserializers.dfserializer;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+/**
+ * Abstraction of serializer to encode/decode context memory parameters
+ * to/from specified data format.
+ */
+public abstract class DataFormatSerializer {
+
+    private DataFormat dataFormat;
+    private DataFormatSerializerContext serializerContext;
+
+    /**
+     * Creates an instance of data format serializer.
+     *
+     * @param dataFormat type of data format
+     * @param serializerContext data format serializer context
+     */
+    protected DataFormatSerializer(DataFormat dataFormat,
+        DataFormatSerializerContext serializerContext) {
+        this.dataFormat = dataFormat;
+        this.serializerContext = serializerContext;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Encodes context memory parameters to data format.
+     *
+     * @param param context memory parameter
+     * @param annotations annotations
+     * @return data format body
+     */
+    public abstract String encode(Map<String, String> param,
+        Map<String, List<Annotation>> annotations);
+
+    /**
+     * Decodes data format body to context memory parameters.
+     *
+     * @param dataFormatBody abstract node
+     * @return context memory parameters
+     */
+    public abstract Map<String, String> decode(String dataFormatBody);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns data format serializer context.
+     *
+     * @return data format serializer context
+     */
+    public DataFormatSerializerContext serializerContext() {
+        return serializerContext;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns supported data format.
+     *
+     * @return supported data format
+     */
+    public DataFormat dataFormat() {
+        return dataFormat;
+    }
+}
+\ No newline at end of file