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+/*
+ * Copyright 2016 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.codec.impl;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.onlab.packet.VlanId;
+import org.onosproject.codec.JsonCodec;
+import org.onosproject.core.CoreService;
+import org.onosproject.net.flow.criteria.Criteria;
+import org.onosproject.net.flow.criteria.Criterion;
+import org.onosproject.net.flowobjective.DefaultFilteringObjective;
+import org.onosproject.net.flowobjective.FilteringObjective;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+import static org.easymock.EasyMock.createMock;
+import static org.easymock.EasyMock.expect;
+import static org.easymock.EasyMock.replay;
+import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.notNullValue;
+import static org.onosproject.codec.impl.FilteringObjectiveJsonMatcher.matchesFilteringObjective;
+import static org.onosproject.net.NetTestTools.APP_ID;
+
+/**
+ * Unit tests for FilteringObjective Codec.
+ */
+public class FilteringObjectiveCodecTest {
+
+    MockCodecContext context;
+    JsonCodec<FilteringObjective> filteringObjectiveCodec;
+    final CoreService mockCoreService = createMock(CoreService.class);
+
+    /**
+     * Sets up for each test.
+     * Creates a context and fetches the FilteringObjective codec.
+     */
+    @Before
+    public void setUp() {
+        context = new MockCodecContext();
+        filteringObjectiveCodec = context.codec(FilteringObjective.class);
+        assertThat(filteringObjectiveCodec, notNullValue());
+
+        expect(mockCoreService.registerApplication(FilteringObjectiveCodec.REST_APP_ID))
+                .andReturn(APP_ID).anyTimes();
+        replay(mockCoreService);
+        context.registerService(CoreService.class, mockCoreService);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Tests encoding of a FilteringObjective object.
+     */
+    @Test
+    public void testFilteringObjectiveEncode() {
+
+        Criterion condition1 = Criteria.matchVlanId(VlanId.ANY);
+        Criterion condition2 = Criteria.matchEthType((short) 0x8844);
+
+        FilteringObjective filteringObj = DefaultFilteringObjective.builder()
+                .makePermanent()
+                .permit()
+                .fromApp(APP_ID)
+                .withPriority(60)
+                .addCondition(condition1)
+                .addCondition(condition2)
+                .add();
+
+        // TODO: need to add test case for TrafficTreatment (META in filteringObj)
+
+        ObjectNode filteringObjJson = filteringObjectiveCodec.encode(filteringObj, context);
+        assertThat(filteringObjJson, matchesFilteringObjective(filteringObj));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Test decoding of a FilteringObjective object.
+     */
+    @Test
+    public void testFilteringObjectiveDecode() throws IOException {
+        FilteringObjective filteringObjective = getFilteringObjective("FilteringObjective.json");
+
+        assertThat(filteringObjective.type(), is(FilteringObjective.Type.PERMIT));
+        assertThat(filteringObjective.priority(), is(60));
+        assertThat(filteringObjective.timeout(), is(1));
+        assertThat(filteringObjective.op(), is(FilteringObjective.Operation.ADD));
+        assertThat(filteringObjective.permanent(), is(false));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Reads in a filteringObjective from the given resource and decodes it.
+     *
+     * @param resourceName resource to use to read the JSON for the rule
+     * @return decoded filteringObjective
+     * @throws IOException if processing the resource fails
+     */
+    private FilteringObjective getFilteringObjective(String resourceName) throws IOException {
+        InputStream jsonStream = FilteringObjectiveCodecTest.class.getResourceAsStream(resourceName);
+        JsonNode json = context.mapper().readTree(jsonStream);
+        assertThat(json, notNullValue());
+        FilteringObjective filteringObjective = filteringObjectiveCodec.decode((ObjectNode) json, context);
+        assertThat(filteringObjective, notNullValue());
+        return filteringObjective;
+    }
+}