ONOS-542 Defining application subsystem interfaces & public constructs.

Change-Id: Iba0d2cb69dace5beee8a68def9918059ce755b5c
diff --git a/web/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/codec/impl/ApplicationCodec.java b/web/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/codec/impl/ApplicationCodec.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2015 Open Networking Laboratory
+ *
+ * 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.
+ */
+package org.onosproject.codec.impl;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
+import org.onosproject.app.ApplicationService;
+import org.onosproject.codec.CodecContext;
+import org.onosproject.codec.JsonCodec;
+import org.onosproject.core.Application;
+
+import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;
+
+/**
+ * Application JSON codec.
+ */
+public class ApplicationCodec extends JsonCodec<Application> {
+
+    @Override
+    public ObjectNode encode(Application app, CodecContext context) {
+        checkNotNull(app, "Application cannot be null");
+        ApplicationService service = context.get(ApplicationService.class);
+        ObjectNode result = context.mapper().createObjectNode()
+                .put("name", app.id().name())
+                .put("id", app.id().id())
+                .put("version", app.version().toString())
+                .put("description", app.description())
+                .put("origin", app.origin())
+                .put("permissions", app.permissions().toString())
+                .put("featuresRepo", app.featuresRepo().isPresent() ?
+                        app.featuresRepo().toString() : "")
+                .put("features", app.features().toString())
+                .put("state", service.getState(app.id()).toString());
+        return result;
+    }
+
+}