Currently, the SLI use Java Reflection code (MdsalHelper class) to convert parameters between the parsed POJOs created by yangtools and Java Properties This code is very complex and contains a good deal of "special case" code to handle POJOs that deviate from its normal inference rules. Aside from being difficult to maintain, this code has been known to be a performance bottleneck for large data sets.

As an alternative, we propose to instead support passing Java DOM/Json objects (depending on input type) into the SLI instead.