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+/*
+ * Copyright 2018 Open Networking Foundation
+ *
+ * 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.drivers.polatis.netconf;
+
+import org.onlab.packet.IpAddress;
+
+import org.onosproject.incubator.net.faultmanagement.alarm.Alarm;
+import org.onosproject.incubator.net.faultmanagement.alarm.AlarmId;
+import org.onosproject.incubator.net.faultmanagement.alarm.DefaultAlarm;
+import org.onosproject.incubator.net.faultmanagement.alarm.DeviceAlarmConfig;
+import org.onosproject.incubator.net.faultmanagement.alarm.XmlEventParser;
+import org.onosproject.net.DeviceId;
+import org.onosproject.net.driver.AbstractHandlerBehaviour;
+import org.onosproject.netconf.NetconfDeviceOutputEvent;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+
+import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+
+import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import static org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger;
+
+/**
+ * Polatis specific implementation to provide asynchronous alarms via NETCONF.
+ */
+public class PolatisAlarmConfig extends AbstractHandlerBehaviour implements DeviceAlarmConfig {
+    private final Logger log = getLogger(getClass());
+
+    private DeviceId deviceId;
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean configureDevice(IpAddress address, int port, String protocol) {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T> Set<Alarm> translateAlarms(List<T> unparsedAlarms) {
+        deviceId = handler().data().deviceId();
+        Set<Alarm> alarms = new HashSet<>();
+        for (T alarm : unparsedAlarms) {
+            if (alarm instanceof NetconfDeviceOutputEvent) {
+                NetconfDeviceOutputEvent event = (NetconfDeviceOutputEvent) alarm;
+                if (event.type() == NetconfDeviceOutputEvent.Type.DEVICE_NOTIFICATION) {
+                    String message = event.getMessagePayload();
+                    InputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(message.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+                    try {
+                        Document doc = XmlEventParser.createDocFromMessage(in);
+                        long timeStamp = XmlEventParser.getEventTime(doc);
+                        Node descriptionNode = XmlEventParser.getDescriptionNode(doc);
+                        while (descriptionNode != null) {
+                            if (descriptionNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
+                                String nodeName = descriptionNode.getNodeName();
+                                if (nodeName == "port-power-alarm") {
+                                    Node portIdNode = descriptionNode.getChildNodes().item(1);
+                                    String portId = portIdNode.getTextContent();
+                                    String description = "Loss of Service alarm raised for fibre " + portId;
+                                    alarms.add(new DefaultAlarm.Builder(AlarmId.alarmId(deviceId,
+                                                Long.toString(timeStamp)), deviceId, description,
+                                                Alarm.SeverityLevel.MAJOR, timeStamp).build());
+                                    descriptionNode = null;
+                                }
+                            } else {
+                                descriptionNode = descriptionNode.getNextSibling();
+                            }
+                        }
+                    } catch (SAXException | IOException | ParserConfigurationException |
+                            UnsupportedOperationException | IllegalArgumentException e) {
+                        log.error("Exception thrown translating message from {}.", deviceId, e);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return alarms;
+    }
+}