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+#
+# Copyright 2018 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.
+#
+from google.protobuf.json_format import MessageToDict
+from google.protobuf.message import Message
+from simplejson import dumps
+from common.event_bus import EventBusClient
+from voltha.protos.omci_mib_db_pb2 import OpenOmciEvent
+from voltha.protos.omci_alarm_db_pb2 import AlarmOpenOmciEvent
+from common.utils.json_format import MessageToDict
+
+
+class OpenOmciEventBus(object):
+    """ Event bus for publishing OpenOMCI related events. """
+    __slots__ = (
+        '_event_bus_client',  # The event bus client used to publish events.
+        '_topic'              # the topic to publish to
+    )
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self._event_bus_client = EventBusClient()
+        self._topic = 'openomci-events'
+
+    def message_to_dict(m):
+        return MessageToDict(m, True, True, False)
+
+    def advertise(self, event_type, data):
+        if isinstance(data, Message):
+            msg = dumps(MessageToDict(data, True, True))
+        elif isinstance(data, dict):
+            msg = dumps(data)
+        else:
+            msg = str(data)
+
+        event_func = AlarmOpenOmciEvent if 'AlarmSynchronizer' in msg \
+                                  else OpenOmciEvent
+        event = event_func(
+                type=event_type,
+                data=msg
+        )
+
+        self._event_bus_client.publish(self._topic, event)