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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
+# Copyright 2017 the original author or authors.
+#
+# 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.
+#
+
+"""
+A gateway between the internal event bus and the Kafka publisher proxy
+to publish select topics and messages posted to the Voltha-internal event
+bus toward the external world.
+"""
+import structlog
+from google.protobuf.json_format import MessageToDict
+from google.protobuf.message import Message
+from simplejson import dumps
+
+from python.common.event_bus import EventBusClient
+
+log = structlog.get_logger()
+
+
+class EventBusPublisher(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, kafka_proxy, config):
+        self.kafka_proxy = kafka_proxy
+        self.config = config
+        self.topic_mappings = config.get('topic_mappings', {})
+        self.event_bus = EventBusClient()
+        self.subscriptions = None
+
+    def start(self):
+        log.debug('starting')
+        self.subscriptions = list()
+        self._setup_subscriptions(self.topic_mappings)
+        log.info('started')
+        return self
+
+    def stop(self):
+        try:
+            log.debug('stopping-event-bus')
+            if self.subscriptions:
+                for subscription in self.subscriptions:
+                    self.event_bus.unsubscribe(subscription)
+            log.info('stopped-event-bus')
+        except Exception, e:
+            log.exception('failed-stopping-event-bus', e=e)
+            return
+
+    def _setup_subscriptions(self, mappings):
+
+        for event_bus_topic, mapping in mappings.iteritems():
+
+            kafka_topic = mapping.get('kafka_topic', None)
+
+            if kafka_topic is None:
+                log.error('no-kafka-topic-in-config',
+                          event_bus_topic=event_bus_topic,
+                          mapping=mapping)
+                continue
+
+            self.subscriptions.append(self.event_bus.subscribe(
+                event_bus_topic,
+                # to avoid Python late-binding to the last registered
+                # kafka_topic, we force instant binding with the default arg
+                lambda _, m, k=kafka_topic: self.forward(k, m)))
+
+            log.info('event-to-kafka', kafka_topic=kafka_topic,
+                     event_bus_topic=event_bus_topic)
+
+    def forward(self, kafka_topic, msg):
+        try:
+            # convert to JSON string if msg is a protobuf msg
+            if isinstance(msg, Message):
+                msg = dumps(MessageToDict(msg, True, True))
+            log.debug('forward-event-bus-publisher')
+            self.kafka_proxy.send_message(kafka_topic, msg)
+        except Exception, e:
+            log.exception('failed-forward-event-bus-publisher', e=e)
+