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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+  ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+   Copyright (C) 2020 AT&T Technologies. All rights reserved.
+  ================================================================================
+  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.
+
+  SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+  ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+
+
+  **** NOTE ****
+  This file is needed to suppress checkstyle for properties files.
+  **************
+-->
+
+<!DOCTYPE suppressions PUBLIC
+     "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Suppressions 1.0//EN"
+     "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/suppressions_1_0.dtd">
+
+<suppressions>
+  <suppress files="\.properties" checks="[a-zA-Z0-9]*"/>
+</suppressions>