diff --git a/apps/kafka-integration/src/main/java/org/onosproject/kafkaintegration/rest/SubscriberCodec.java b/apps/kafka-integration/src/main/java/org/onosproject/kafkaintegration/rest/SubscriberCodec.java
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+/**
+ * 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.kafkaintegration.rest;
+
+import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;
+
+import java.util.UUID;
+
+import org.onosproject.codec.CodecContext;
+import org.onosproject.codec.JsonCodec;
+import org.onosproject.kafkaintegration.api.dto.EventSubscriber;
+import org.onosproject.kafkaintegration.api.dto.EventSubscriberGroupId;
+import org.onosproject.kafkaintegration.api.dto.OnosEvent.Type;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
+
+/**
+ * Codec for encoding/decoding a Subscriber object to/from JSON.
+ *
+ */
+public final class SubscriberCodec extends JsonCodec<EventSubscriber> {
+
+    // JSON field names
+    private static final String NAME = "appName";
+    private static final String GROUP_ID = "groupId";
+    private static final String EVENT_TYPE = "eventType";
+
+    @Override
+    public ObjectNode encode(EventSubscriber data, CodecContext context) {
+        checkNotNull(data, "Subscriber cannot be null");
+        return context.mapper().createObjectNode().put(NAME, data.appName())
+                .put(GROUP_ID, data.subscriberGroupId().getId().toString())
+                .put(EVENT_TYPE, data.eventType().toString());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public EventSubscriber decode(ObjectNode json, CodecContext context) {
+        String name = json.path(NAME).asText();
+        String groupId = json.path(GROUP_ID).asText();
+        EventSubscriberGroupId subscriberGroupId = new EventSubscriberGroupId(UUID
+                .fromString(groupId));
+        String eventType = json.path(EVENT_TYPE).asText();
+
+        return new EventSubscriber(name, subscriberGroupId,
+                                   Type.valueOf(eventType));
+    }
+}