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+/*
+ * Copyright 2017-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.yang;
+
+import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Activate;
+import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Component;
+import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Deactivate;
+import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Reference;
+import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.ReferenceCardinality;
+import org.onosproject.yang.model.YangModel;
+import org.onosproject.yang.runtime.DefaultModelRegistrationParam;
+import org.onosproject.yang.runtime.ModelRegistrationParam;
+import org.onosproject.yang.runtime.YangModelRegistry;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import static org.onosproject.yang.runtime.helperutils.YangApacheUtils.getYangModel;
+
+/**
+ * Abstract base for self-registering YANG models.
+ */
+@Component
+public abstract class AbstractYangModelRegistrator {
+
+    private final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass());
+    private final Class<?> loaderClass;
+
+    @Reference(cardinality = ReferenceCardinality.MANDATORY_UNARY)
+    protected YangModelRegistry modelRegistry;
+
+    private YangModel model;
+    private ModelRegistrationParam registrationParam;
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a model registrator primed with the class-loader of the specified
+     * class.
+     *
+     * @param loaderClass class whose class loader is to be used for locating schema data
+     */
+    protected AbstractYangModelRegistrator(Class<?> loaderClass) {
+        this.loaderClass = loaderClass;
+    }
+
+    @Activate
+    protected void activate() {
+        model = getYangModel(loaderClass);
+        registrationParam = DefaultModelRegistrationParam.builder()
+                .setYangModel(model).build();
+        modelRegistry.registerModel(registrationParam);
+        log.info("Started");
+    }
+
+    @Deactivate
+    protected void deactivate() {
+        modelRegistry.unregisterModel(registrationParam);
+        log.info("Stopped");
+    }
+}