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+package org.onlab.onos.sdnip.config;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
+
+import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
+import org.onlab.packet.IpAddress;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+/**
+ * SDN-IP Config Reader provides IConfigInfoService
+ * by reading from an SDN-IP configuration file.
+ * It must be enabled on the nodes within the cluster
+ * not running SDN-IP.
+ * <p/>
+ * TODO: As a long term solution, a module providing
+ * general network configuration to ONOS nodes should be used.
+ */
+public class SdnIpConfigReader implements SdnIpConfigService {
+
+    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SdnIpConfigReader.class);
+
+    private static final String DEFAULT_CONFIG_FILE = "config/sdnip.json";
+    private String configFileName = DEFAULT_CONFIG_FILE;
+    //private Map<String, Interface> interfaces;
+    // We call the BGP routers in our SDN network the BGP speakers, and call
+    // the BGP routers outside our SDN network the BGP peers.
+    private Map<String, BgpSpeaker> bgpSpeakers;
+    private Map<IpAddress, BgpPeer> bgpPeers;
+    //private InvertedRadixTree<Interface> interfaceRoutes;
+
+    /**
+     * Reads the info contained in the configuration file.
+     *
+     * @param configFilename The name of configuration file for SDN-IP application.
+     */
+    private void readConfiguration(String configFilename) {
+        File gatewaysFile = new File(configFilename);
+        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+
+        try {
+            Configuration config = mapper.readValue(gatewaysFile, Configuration.class);
+            /*interfaces = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
+            for (Interface intf : config.getInterfaces()) {
+                interfaces.put(intf.getName(), intf);
+            }*/
+            bgpSpeakers = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
+            for (BgpSpeaker speaker : config.getBgpSpeakers()) {
+                bgpSpeakers.put(speaker.getSpeakerName(), speaker);
+            }
+            bgpPeers = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
+            for (BgpPeer peer : config.getPeers()) {
+                bgpPeers.put(peer.getIpAddress(), peer);
+            }
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            log.error("Error reading JSON file", e);
+            //throw new ConfigurationRuntimeException("Error in JSON file", e);
+        }
+
+        // Populate the interface InvertedRadixTree
+        /*for (Interface intf : interfaces.values()) {
+            Ip4Prefix prefix = intf.getIp4Prefix();
+            String binaryString = RouteEntry.createBinaryString(prefix);
+            interfaceRoutes.put(binaryString, intf);
+        }*/
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * To find the Interface which has longest matchable IP prefix (sub-network
+     *  prefix) to next hop IP address.
+     *
+     * @param address the IP address of next hop router
+     * @return the Interface which has longest matchable IP prefix
+     */
+    /*private Interface longestInterfacePrefixMatch(IpAddress address) {
+        Ip4Prefix prefixToSearchFor =
+            new Ip4Prefix(address, (short) Ip4Address.BIT_LENGTH);
+        String binaryString = RouteEntry.createBinaryString(prefixToSearchFor);
+
+        Iterator<Interface> it =
+            interfaceRoutes.getValuesForKeysPrefixing(binaryString).iterator();
+        Interface intf = null;
+        // Find the last prefix, which will be the longest prefix
+        while (it.hasNext()) {
+            intf = it.next();
+        }
+
+        return intf;
+    }*/
+
+    /*@Override
+    public Interface getOutgoingInterface(IpAddress dstIpAddress) {
+        return longestInterfacePrefixMatch(dstIpAddress);
+    }*/
+
+    public void init() {
+        //interfaceRoutes = new ConcurrentInvertedRadixTree<>(
+                //new DefaultByteArrayNodeFactory());
+
+        // Reading config values
+        /*String configFilenameParameter = context.getConfigParams(this).get("configfile");
+        if (configFilenameParameter != null) {
+            currentConfigFilename = configFilenameParameter;
+        }*/
+        log.debug("Config file set to {}", configFileName);
+
+        readConfiguration(configFileName);
+    }
+
+    /*@Override
+    public Map<String, Interface> getInterfaces() {
+        return Collections.unmodifiableMap(interfaces);
+    }*/
+
+    @Override
+    public Map<String, BgpSpeaker> getBgpSpeakers() {
+        return Collections.unmodifiableMap(bgpSpeakers);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Map<IpAddress, BgpPeer> getBgpPeers() {
+        return Collections.unmodifiableMap(bgpPeers);
+    }
+
+    static String dpidToUri(String dpid) {
+        return "of:" + dpid.replace(":", "");
+    }
+}