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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.kafkaintegration.converter;
+
+import org.onosproject.event.Event;
+
+import com.google.protobuf.GeneratedMessage;
+
+/**
+ *
+ * APIs for converting between ONOS event objects and GPB data objects.
+ *
+ */
+public interface EventConverter {
+
+    /**
+     * Converts ONOS specific event data to a format that is suitable for export
+     * to Kafka.
+     *
+     * @param event ONOS Event object
+     * @return converted data in GPB format.
+     */
+    public GeneratedMessage convertToProtoMessage(Event<?, ?> event);
+}