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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.pnserializer;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+/**
+ * Abstraction of an entity to enable encoding and decoding of properties
+ * to an abstract properties node tree using YANG based schema.
+ * This serializer will be used by other data format serializers and will keep
+ * them abstract from properties nuances thereby enabling quick addition of any
+ * new data format serializer.
+ *
+ * @param <T> type of schema node
+ * @param <P> schema context of the model
+ */
+public abstract class PropertiesNodeSerializer<T, P> {
+
+    /**
+     * Schema node from which the property is made.
+     */
+    private T schemaNode;
+
+    /**
+     * Schema context of the model.
+     */
+    private P schemaCtx;
+
+    /**
+     * URL pointing to the schema node.
+     */
+    private String uri;
+
+    /**
+     * Creates the properties node serializer.
+     *
+     * @param schemaNode schema node.
+     * @param schemaCtx schema context
+     * @param uri URL of the request
+     */
+    public PropertiesNodeSerializer(T schemaNode, P schemaCtx, String uri) {
+        this.schemaNode = schemaNode;
+        this.schemaCtx = schemaCtx;
+        this.uri = uri;
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Encodes from properties to properties-node tree.
+     *
+     * @param paramMap parameter map
+     * @return properties node
+     */
+    public abstract PropertiesNode encode(Map<String, String> paramMap);
+
+    /**
+     * Decodes from properties-node to properties map.
+     *
+     * @param propertiesNode properties-node
+     * @return parameter map
+     */
+    public abstract Map<String, String> decode(PropertiesNode propertiesNode);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the schema node of the property
+     *
+     * @return schema node
+     */
+    public T getSchemaNode(){
+        return schemaNode;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the schema context
+     *
+     * @return schema node
+     */
+    public P getSchemaCtx() {
+        return schemaCtx;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the URI.
+     *
+     * @return uri
+     */
+    public String getUri() {
+        return uri;
+    }
+}