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+/*
+ * Copyright 2020-present 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.k8snode.codec;
+
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+import org.hamcrest.Description;
+import org.hamcrest.TypeSafeDiagnosingMatcher;
+import org.onosproject.k8snode.api.K8sHost;
+
+/**
+ * Hamcrest matcher for kubernetes host.
+ */
+public final class K8sHostJsonMatcher extends TypeSafeDiagnosingMatcher<JsonNode> {
+
+    private final K8sHost host;
+
+    private static final String HOST_IP = "hostIp";
+    private static final String NODE_NAMES = "nodeNames";
+    private static final String STATE = "state";
+
+    private K8sHostJsonMatcher(K8sHost host) {
+        this.host = host;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected boolean matchesSafely(JsonNode jsonNode, Description description) {
+
+        // check host IP
+        String jsonHostIp = jsonNode.get(HOST_IP).asText();
+        String hostIp = host.hostIp().toString();
+        if (!jsonHostIp.equals(hostIp)) {
+            description.appendText("host IP was " + jsonHostIp);
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        // check state
+        String jsonState = jsonNode.get(STATE).asText();
+        String state = host.state().name();
+        if (!jsonState.equals(state)) {
+            description.appendText("state was " + jsonState);
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        // check node names size
+        JsonNode jsonNames = jsonNode.get(NODE_NAMES);
+        if (jsonNames.size() != host.nodeNames().size()) {
+            description.appendText("Node names size was " + jsonNames.size());
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        // check node names
+        for (String name : host.nodeNames()) {
+            boolean nameFound = false;
+            for (int nameIndex = 0; nameIndex < jsonNames.size(); nameIndex++) {
+                if (name.equals(jsonNames.get(nameIndex).asText())) {
+                    nameFound = true;
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+
+            if (!nameFound) {
+                description.appendText("Name not found " + name);
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void describeTo(Description description) {
+        description.appendText(host.toString());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Factory to allocate an k8s host matcher.
+     *
+     * @param host k8s host object we are looking for
+     * @return matcher
+     */
+    public static K8sHostJsonMatcher matchesK8sHost(K8sHost host) {
+        return new K8sHostJsonMatcher(host);
+    }
+}