diff --git a/protocols/restconf/client/api/BUCK b/protocols/restconf/client/api/BUCK
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+++ b/protocols/restconf/client/api/BUCK
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+COMPILE_DEPS = [
+    '//lib:CORE_DEPS',
+    '//incubator/api:onos-incubator-api',
+    '//utils/rest:onlab-rest',
+    '//protocols/rest/api:onos-protocols-rest-api',
+]
+
+osgi_jar_with_tests (
+    deps = COMPILE_DEPS,
+)
diff --git a/protocols/restconf/client/api/pom.xml b/protocols/restconf/client/api/pom.xml
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+++ b/protocols/restconf/client/api/pom.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Copyright 2016-present 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.
+  -->
+
+<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
+    <artifactId>onos-restconf-client</artifactId>
+    <version>1.8.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
+  </parent>
+  <artifactId>onos-restconf-client-api</artifactId>
+  <packaging>bundle</packaging>
+  <description>ONOS RESTCONF southbound plugin API</description>
+  <dependencies>
+      <dependency>
+          <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
+          <artifactId>onos-restsb-api</artifactId>
+          <version>${project.version}</version>
+          <type>bundle</type>
+      </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>
diff --git a/protocols/restconf/client/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/protocol/restconf/RestConfNotificationEventListener.java b/protocols/restconf/client/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/protocol/restconf/RestConfNotificationEventListener.java
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+++ b/protocols/restconf/client/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/protocol/restconf/RestConfNotificationEventListener.java
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2016-present 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.protocol.restconf;
+
+import org.onosproject.net.DeviceId;
+
+/**
+ * Notifies providers about incoming RESTCONF notification events.
+ */
+public interface RestConfNotificationEventListener {
+
+    /**
+     * Handles the notification event.
+     *
+     * @param <T>
+     *
+     * @param deviceId of the restconf device
+     * @param eventJsonString the json string representation of the event
+     */
+    <T> void handleNotificationEvent(DeviceId deviceId, T eventJsonString);
+
+}
diff --git a/protocols/restconf/client/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/protocol/restconf/RestConfSBController.java b/protocols/restconf/client/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/protocol/restconf/RestConfSBController.java
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index 0000000..772aaea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/protocols/restconf/client/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/protocol/restconf/RestConfSBController.java
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2016-present 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.protocol.restconf;
+
+import org.onosproject.net.DeviceId;
+import org.onosproject.protocol.http.HttpSBController;
+
+/**
+ * Abstraction of a RESTCONF controller. Serves as a one stop shop for obtaining
+ * RESTCONF southbound devices and (un)register listeners.
+ */
+public interface RestConfSBController extends HttpSBController {
+
+    /**
+     * This method is to be called by whoever is interested to receive
+     * Notifications from a specific device. It does a REST GET request
+     * with specified parameters to the device, and calls the provided
+     * callBackListener upon receiving notifications to notify the requester
+     * about notifications.
+     *
+     *
+     * @param device device to make the request to
+     * @param request url of the request
+     * @param mediaType format to retrieve the content in
+     * @param callBackListener method to call when notifications arrives
+     */
+    void enableNotifications(DeviceId device, String request, String mediaType,
+                          RestConfNotificationEventListener callBackListener);
+
+    /**
+     * Register a listener for notification events that occur to restconf
+     * devices.
+     *
+     * @param deviceId the deviceId
+     * @param listener the listener to notify
+     */
+    void addNotificationListener(DeviceId deviceId,
+                                 RestConfNotificationEventListener listener);
+
+    /**
+     * Unregister the listener for the device.
+     *
+     * @param deviceId the deviceId
+     */
+    void removeNotificationListener(DeviceId deviceId);
+}
diff --git a/protocols/restconf/client/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/protocol/restconf/package-info.java b/protocols/restconf/client/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/protocol/restconf/package-info.java
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/protocols/restconf/client/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/protocol/restconf/package-info.java
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2016-present 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.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * RESTCONF southbound protocols libraries.
+ */
+package org.onosproject.protocol.restconf;