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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.drivers.microsemi;
+
+import static org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Reference;
+import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.ReferenceCardinality;
+import org.onosproject.net.DeviceId;
+import org.onosproject.net.behaviour.ConfigGetter;
+import org.onosproject.net.driver.AbstractHandlerBehaviour;
+import org.onosproject.net.driver.DriverHandler;
+import org.onosproject.net.packet.PacketProcessor;
+import org.onosproject.net.packet.PacketService;
+import org.onosproject.netconf.NetconfController;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+
+import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
+
+/**
+ * Used with the onos:device-configuration CLI command.
+ *
+ * This allows the full configuration to be retrieved from the device
+ */
+public class NetconfConfigGetter extends AbstractHandlerBehaviour implements ConfigGetter {
+
+    private final Logger log = getLogger(getClass());
+
+    @Reference(cardinality = ReferenceCardinality.MANDATORY_UNARY)
+    protected PacketService packetService;
+
+    private PacketProcessor testProcessor;
+
+    // FIXME the error string should be universal for all implementations of
+    // ConfigGetter
+    public static final String UNABLE_TO_READ_CONFIG = "config retrieval error";
+
+    @Override
+    public String getConfiguration(String type) {
+        DriverHandler handler = handler();
+        NetconfController controller = handler.get(NetconfController.class);
+
+        DeviceId ofDeviceId = handler.data().deviceId();
+        Preconditions.checkNotNull(controller, "Netconf controller is null");
+        if (type == null ||
+                (!type.equalsIgnoreCase("running")
+                        && !type.equalsIgnoreCase("candidate")
+                        && !type.equalsIgnoreCase("startup"))) {
+            log.error("Configuration type must be either 'running', 'startup' or 'candidate'. '{}' is invalid", type);
+            return UNABLE_TO_READ_CONFIG;
+        }
+        try {
+            return controller.getDevicesMap().get(ofDeviceId).getSession().getConfig(type.replace("cfgType=", ""));
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            log.error("Configuration could not be retrieved {}", e.getMessage());
+        }
+        return UNABLE_TO_READ_CONFIG;
+    }
+}