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+<?php
+
+/*
+ * @file
+ *   PHPUnit Tests for Drush Issue Queue command. This uses Drush's own test
+ *   framework, based on PHPUnit.  To run the tests, use:
+ *
+ *      ./runtests.sh .
+ *
+ *   This is equivalent to:
+ *
+ *     phpunit --bootstrap=/path/to/drush/tests/drush_testcase.inc .
+ *
+ *   Note that we are pointing to the drush_testcase.inc file under /tests
+ *   directory in drush.
+ */
+require __DIR__ . '/iq.drush.inc';
+
+if (!function_exists('drush_log')) {
+
+  function drush_log($m) {
+    echo $m . "\n\n";
+  }
+
+  function dt($t) {
+    return $t;
+  }
+
+}
+
+class iqTestCase extends Drush_CommandTestCase {
+
+  private $site = "http://drupal:drupal@project-drupal.redesign.devdrupal.org";
+
+  //private $site = "http://drupal.org";
+
+  public function ttestParseJson() {
+    $uri = __DIR__ . '/tests/data/project-issue-2125253.json';
+    $this->assertFileExists($uri);
+    $data = file_get_contents($uri);
+    $this->assertFalse(empty($data), "Data is read");
+    $json = json_decode($data, TRUE);
+
+    $prepared = _drush_iq_parse_json($data);
+    $this->assertFalse(empty($prepared), "Processed into our dataset");
+  }
+
+  public function testDownloadIssueData() {
+    $nid = "2125253";
+    $node = $this->downloadNode($nid);
+    $author = $node->author;
+    $this->addUser($node, $author->id);
+
+    $comments = $node->comments;
+    foreach ($comments as $comment) {
+      // We could use $comment->uri if using Accept header and getting response
+      $node->_drush_data["comment/" . $comment->id] = $this->downloadComment($comment->id);
+      $this->addUser($node, $node->_drush_data["comment/" . $comment->id]->author->id);
+    }
+
+
+    foreach ($node->field_issue_files as $issue_file) {
+      // $issue_file is a compound object of display + file
+      $uri = 'file/' . $issue_file->file->id;
+      $node->_drush_data[$uri] = $this->fetchJson($uri);
+      $this->addUser($node, $node->_drush_data[$uri]->owner->id);
+    }
+    print_r($node);
+  }
+
+  function addUser($item, $id) {
+    $uri = 'user/' . $id;
+    $item->_drush_data[$uri] = $this->fetchJson($uri);
+  }
+
+  function downloadNode($id) {
+    return $this->fetchJson("node/$id");
+  }
+
+  function downloadComment($id) {
+    return $this->fetchJson("comment/$id");
+  }
+
+  function downloadUser($id) {
+    return $this->fetchJson("user/$id");
+  }
+
+  function fetchJson($uri) {
+    if (!$content = $this->cache_get($uri)) {
+      $content = $this->fetchUri($uri);
+    }
+    $this->assertJson($content, "Fetched json from $uri");
+    $json = json_decode($content);
+    file_put_contents(__DIR__ . '/tests/data/download/' . $uri . '.json', json_encode($json, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT));
+    return json_decode($content);
+  }
+
+  function cache_get($uri) {
+    $path = __DIR__ . '/tests';
+    @mkdir($path);
+    @mkdir($path . '/data');
+    @mkdir($path . '/data/download');
+    @mkdir($path . '/data/download/node');
+    @mkdir($path . '/data/download/comment');
+    @mkdir($path . '/data/download/user');
+    @mkdir($path . '/data/download/file');
+
+    $file = $path . '/data/download/' . $uri . '.json';
+    // this fails on my system: why?
+    // mkdir(dirname($file), 0777, TRUE);
+    if (file_exists($file)) {
+      return file_get_contents($file);
+    }
+  }
+
+  function fetchUri($uri) {
+    $url = $this->buildJsonUri($uri);
+    $options = array(
+      'http' => array(
+        'method' => "GET",
+        'header' => "Accept-language: en\r\nAccept: application/json\r\n" .
+        "Cookie: foo=bar\r\n" . // check function.stream-context-create on php.net
+        "User-Agent: Drush\r\n"
+      )
+    );
+    //drush_download_file($url);
+    $context = stream_context_create($options);
+    $file = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
+    return $file;
+  }
+
+  function buildJsonUri($uri) {
+    //return $this->site . '/' . $uri . '.json';
+    return $this->site . '/' . $uri;
+  }
+
+}