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An example of NETCONF infrastructure usage is getting and setting controllers on a device. These operations are defined in an ONOS Behaviour, in our case the NetconfControllerConfig.java, that implements ControllerConfig general behaviour. To do in the Behaviour operations on the devices, you need the NetconfController, which you can obtain through the DriverHandler. The NetconfController instance now gives you access to all the device or a single device. Once you have the device you are interested in based upon the deviceId you can get the NetconfSession object to comunicate communicate with the device and do operations on the physical devices, like getting the configuration in in the get controllers methods or setting a pre-built new one for the setControllers. XmlConfigParser.java offers a method to extract the desired information from an devices's XML response and another method to produce the correct XML to set one or more controller on a specific device.
You can take a look at the acutal actual implementation of the get and set controllers operation in the NetconfControllerConfig.java class. For an example of other operations that can be implemented the OVSDB infrastructure provides a good starting point.
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