[WIP][ONOS-3722] Augment TableModel with Annotations Mechanism

Change-Id: I815ce0b0fde254dd730153c34905d9454f019d9a
diff --git a/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/ui/table/TableRequestHandler.java b/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/ui/table/TableRequestHandler.java
index b8d4857..43700db 100644
--- a/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/ui/table/TableRequestHandler.java
+++ b/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/ui/table/TableRequestHandler.java
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
  */
 public abstract class TableRequestHandler extends RequestHandler {
 
+    private static final String ANNOTS = "annots";
+    private static final String NO_ROWS_MSG_KEY = "no_rows_msg";
     private final String respType;
     private final String nodeName;
 
@@ -53,8 +55,11 @@
         String sortDir = JsonUtils.string(payload, "sortDir", "asc");
         tm.sort(sortCol, TableModel.sortDir(sortDir));
 
+        addTableConfigAnnotations(tm);
+
         ObjectNode rootNode = MAPPER.createObjectNode();
-        rootNode.set(nodeName, TableUtils.generateArrayNode(tm));
+        rootNode.set(nodeName, TableUtils.generateRowArrayNode(tm));
+        rootNode.set(ANNOTS, TableUtils.generateAnnotObjectNode(tm));
         sendMessage(respType, 0, rootNode);
     }
 
@@ -72,6 +77,15 @@
     }
 
     /**
+     * Adds all annotations to table model.
+     *
+     * @param tm a table model
+     */
+    protected void addTableConfigAnnotations(TableModel tm) {
+        tm.addAnnotation(NO_ROWS_MSG_KEY, noRowsMessage());
+    }
+
+    /**
      * Returns the default column ID to be used when one is not supplied in
      * the payload as the column on which to sort.
      * <p>
@@ -92,6 +106,15 @@
     protected abstract String[] getColumnIds();
 
     /**
+     * Subclasses should return the message to display in the table when there
+     * are no rows to display. For example, a host table might return
+     * "No hosts found".
+     *
+     * @return the message
+     */
+    protected abstract String noRowsMessage();
+
+    /**
      * Subclasses should populate the table model by adding
      * {@link TableModel.Row rows}.
      * <pre>
@@ -108,4 +131,4 @@
      * @param payload request payload
      */
     protected abstract void populateTable(TableModel tm, ObjectNode payload);
-}
+}
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