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+#pragma once
+
+#include "section.hpp"
+#include "stream.hpp"
+
+namespace openpower
+{
+namespace pels
+{
+
+/**
+ * @class UserData
+ *
+ * This represents the User Data section in a PEL.  It is free form data
+ * that the creator knows the contents of.  The component ID, version,
+ * and sub-type fields in the section header are used to identify the
+ * format.
+ *
+ * The Section base class handles the section header structure that every
+ * PEL section has at offset zero.
+ */
+class UserData : public Section
+{
+  public:
+    UserData() = delete;
+    ~UserData() = default;
+    UserData(const UserData&) = default;
+    UserData& operator=(const UserData&) = default;
+    UserData(UserData&&) = default;
+    UserData& operator=(UserData&&) = default;
+
+    /**
+     * @brief Constructor
+     *
+     * Fills in this class's data fields from the stream.
+     *
+     * @param[in] pel - the PEL data stream
+     */
+    explicit UserData(Stream& pel);
+
+    /**
+     * @brief Constructor
+     *
+     * Create a valid UserData object with the passed in data.
+     *
+     * The component ID, subtype, and version are used to identify
+     * the data to know which parser to call.
+     *
+     * @param[in] componentID - Component ID of the creator
+     * @param[in] subType - The type of user data
+     * @param[in] version - The version of the data
+     */
+    UserData(uint16_t componentID, uint8_t subType, uint8_t version,
+             const std::vector<uint8_t>& data);
+
+    /**
+     * @brief Flatten the section into the stream
+     *
+     * @param[in] stream - The stream to write to
+     */
+    void flatten(Stream& stream) override;
+
+    /**
+     * @brief Returns the size of this section when flattened into a PEL
+     *
+     * @return size_t - the size of the section
+     */
+    size_t flattenedSize()
+    {
+        return Section::flattenedSize() + _data.size();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @brief Returns the raw section data
+     *
+     * @return std::vector<uint8_t>&
+     */
+    const std::vector<uint8_t>& data() const
+    {
+        return _data;
+    }
+
+  private:
+    /**
+     * @brief Fills in the object from the stream data
+     *
+     * @param[in] stream - The stream to read from
+     */
+    void unflatten(Stream& stream);
+
+    /**
+     * @brief Validates the section contents
+     *
+     * Updates _valid (in Section) with the results.
+     */
+    void validate() override;
+
+    /**
+     * @brief The section data
+     */
+    std::vector<uint8_t> _data;
+};
+
+} // namespace pels
+} // namespace openpower