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+package com.metamx.druid.sql;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectWriter;
+import com.metamx.druid.Druids;
+import com.metamx.druid.Query;
+import com.metamx.druid.aggregation.AggregatorFactory;
+import com.metamx.druid.jackson.DefaultObjectMapper;
+import com.metamx.druid.query.dimension.DimensionSpec;
+import com.metamx.druid.query.group.GroupByQuery;
+import com.metamx.druid.sql.antlr4.DruidSQLLexer;
+import com.metamx.druid.sql.antlr4.DruidSQLParser;
+import org.antlr.v4.runtime.ANTLRInputStream;
+import org.antlr.v4.runtime.CharStream;
+import org.antlr.v4.runtime.CommonTokenStream;
+import org.antlr.v4.runtime.TokenStream;
+import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
+import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;
+import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.StringRequestEntity;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+
+public class SQLRunner
+{
+  private static final String STATEMENT = "select count(*), sum(count) / count(*) as avg from wikipedia where"
+                                          + " timestamp between '2013-02-01' and '2013-02-14'"
+                                          + " and namespace = 'article'"
+                                          + " and ( language = 'en' or language = 'fr' ) "
+                                          + " group by granularity(timestamp, 'day'), language";
+
+  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
+  {
+    String hostname = args.length > 0 ? args[0] : "localhost";
+    String sql = args.length > 1 ? args[1] : STATEMENT;
+
+    ObjectWriter json = new DefaultObjectMapper().writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter();
+
+    CharStream stream = new ANTLRInputStream(sql);
+    DruidSQLLexer lexer = new DruidSQLLexer(stream);
+    TokenStream tokenStream = new CommonTokenStream(lexer);
+    DruidSQLParser parser = new DruidSQLParser(tokenStream);
+
+
+    DruidSQLParser.QueryContext q = parser.query();
+
+    parser.setBuildParseTree(true);
+    System.err.println(q.toStringTree(parser));
+
+    Query query;
+
+    if(parser.groupByDimensions.isEmpty()) {
+      query = Druids.newTimeseriesQueryBuilder()
+                  .dataSource(parser.getDataSource())
+                  .aggregators(new ArrayList<AggregatorFactory>(parser.aggregators.values()))
+                  .postAggregators(parser.postAggregators)
+                  .intervals(parser.intervals)
+                  .granularity(parser.granularity)
+                  .filters(parser.filter)
+                  .build();
+    } else {
+      query = GroupByQuery.builder()
+              .setDataSource(parser.getDataSource())
+              .setAggregatorSpecs(new ArrayList<AggregatorFactory>(parser.aggregators.values()))
+              .setPostAggregatorSpecs(parser.postAggregators)
+              .setInterval(parser.intervals)
+              .setGranularity(parser.granularity)
+              .setDimFilter(parser.filter)
+              .setDimensions(new ArrayList<DimensionSpec>(parser.groupByDimensions.values()))
+              .build();
+    }
+
+    String queryStr = json.writeValueAsString(query);
+    System.err.println(queryStr);
+
+    PostMethod req = new PostMethod("http://" + hostname + "/druid/v2/?pretty");
+    req.setRequestEntity(new StringRequestEntity(queryStr, "application/json", "utf-8"));
+    new HttpClient().executeMethod(req);
+
+    BufferedReader stdInput = new BufferedReader(new
+                     InputStreamReader(req.getResponseBodyAsStream()));
+
+    String s; while ((s = stdInput.readLine()) != null) System.out.println(s);
+
+    stdInput.close();
+  }
+}