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+/*
+ * Copyright 2015 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.distributedprimitives.cli;
+
+import org.apache.karaf.shell.commands.Argument;
+import org.apache.karaf.shell.commands.Command;
+import org.apache.karaf.shell.commands.Option;
+import org.onosproject.cli.AbstractShellCommand;
+import org.onosproject.store.serializers.KryoNamespaces;
+import org.onosproject.store.service.Serializer;
+import org.onosproject.store.service.StorageService;
+import org.onosproject.store.service.TransactionContext;
+import org.onosproject.store.service.TransactionalMap;
+
+/**
+ * CLI command to put a value into a transactional map.
+ */
+@Command(scope = "onos", name = "transactional-map-test-put",
+        description = "Put a value into a transactional map")
+public class TransactionalMapTestPutCommand extends AbstractShellCommand {
+
+    @Option(name = "-i", aliases = "--inMemory", description = "use in memory map?",
+            required = false, multiValued = false)
+    private boolean inMemory = false;
+
+    @Argument(index = 0, name = "numKeys",
+            description = "Number of keys to put the value into",
+            required = true, multiValued = false)
+    private int numKeys = 1;
+
+    @Argument(index = 1, name = "value",
+            description = "Value to map with the keys in the map",
+            required = true, multiValued = false)
+    private String value = null;
+
+    TransactionalMap<String, String> map;
+    String prefix = "Key";
+    String mapName = "Test-Map";
+    Serializer serializer = Serializer.using(KryoNamespaces.BASIC);
+
+    @Override
+    protected void execute() {
+        StorageService storageService = get(StorageService.class);
+        TransactionContext context;
+        if (inMemory) {
+            context = storageService.transactionContextBuilder().withPartitionsDisabled().build();
+        } else {
+            context = storageService.transactionContextBuilder().build();
+        }
+        context.begin();
+        try {
+            map = context.getTransactionalMap(mapName, serializer);
+            for (int i = 1; i <= numKeys; i++) {
+                String key = prefix + i;
+                String response = map.put(key, value);
+                if (response == null) {
+                    print("Created Key %s with value %s.", key, value);
+                } else {
+                    print("Put %s into key %s. The old value was %s.", value, key, response);
+                }
+            }
+            context.commit();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            context.abort();
+            throw e;
+        }
+    }
+}