The Plastic Project Proposal is a great place to get the five minute read of what Plastic is and why you might want to consider using it. A portion of that content is repeated below.

• Occurs in internals of a system behind endpoints

• ODL context – moving from northbound to southbound representations

• Sometimes need to trivially convert data representation

• JSON, XML, YML, other parse-able formats

• Sometimes need to change abstractions (1:1, N:1, N:N)

• Morph one model into completely different model

• Morph N models into one model

• Pay-as-you-go for complexity (field deployable changes)

• Declarative representations are emphasized (clear schemas)

• Translation-by-intent (say what you want, not how to do it)

• Deeper levels of abstraction to help keep custom logic schema-independence

• Can specify arbitrary morphing via plug-ins in JVM language

• Understands breaking large mapping problems up (both time and space) into small chunks

• Schema changes for device configurations across releases

• No more hard-wired dependency on vendor libraries

• In-the-field updating to support multiple versions of devices

• Light weight specifications avoid religiosity around “DRY"

• Allan Clarke <aclarke-at-pobox.com>

• Balaji Varadaraju <bvaradar@luminanetworks.com>

• Tejas Nevrekar <tnevrekar@luminanetworks.com>

• open bugs

• Getting Started

• Docs in the repo itself or online here

• Get the latest release here (and older releases)

• An Introduction (that is too detailed and needs rewriting)

• A Best Practices document

• A document on running the stand-alone command line version of Plastic called Plastic Runner (look for the only .tar.gz on Nexus)

• An Authoring document aimed at advanced coding usages (this should evolve into a reference over time)

• Announcement and presentation of Plastic at 2019 DDF

Both parts of the tutorial below include examples ready to run via Plastic Runner

• A No Coding Tutorial on how to configure translations without using any coding (for the translation itself)

• A Coding Tutorial that shows how to create simple plugins that are automatically picked up during the translation process

• Git clone below for read-only access 

https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/plastic.git

• Git clone below for full access 

• Allan Clarke, originator, architect, and primary implementor

• Lumina Networks, Inc, for allowing this code to be open-sourced

• Balaji Varadaraju, for discussing ideas and requirements wrangling

• Mike Arsenault, for discussing ideas and contributing

• Shaleen Saxeena, for pushing the boundaries around requirements

Please contact hosts in case of any issues.

• Topic: ODL - Weekly Plastic Project meeting

• Time: TBA