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+/**
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2010 Cloud Conscious, LLC. <info@cloudconscious.com>
+ *
+ * ====================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * ====================================================================
+ */
+
+package org.jclouds.vcloud.savvis.compute;
+
+import static org.jclouds.compute.util.ComputeServiceUtils.getCores;
+import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+import org.jclouds.compute.BaseComputeServiceLiveTest;
+import org.jclouds.compute.ComputeServiceContextFactory;
+import org.jclouds.compute.domain.ComputeMetadata;
+import org.jclouds.compute.domain.ComputeType;
+import org.jclouds.compute.domain.Image;
+import org.jclouds.compute.domain.NodeMetadata;
+import org.jclouds.compute.domain.OsFamily;
+import org.jclouds.compute.domain.Template;
+import org.jclouds.compute.domain.TemplateBuilder;
+import org.jclouds.rest.RestContext;
+import org.jclouds.savvis.SymphonyVPDCAsyncClient;
+import org.jclouds.savvis.SymphonyVPDCClient;
+import org.jclouds.ssh.jsch.config.JschSshClientModule;
+import org.jclouds.vcloud.domain.VCloudExpressVApp;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+
+/**
+ * 
+ * 
+ * @author Kedar Dave
+ */
+@Test(groups = "live", enabled = true, sequential = true)
+public class SymphonyVPDCComputeServiceLiveTest extends BaseComputeServiceLiveTest {
+   public SymphonyVPDCComputeServiceLiveTest() {
+      provider = "savvis-symphony-vpdc";
+   }
+
+   @Override
+   public void setServiceDefaults() {
+      group = "savvis.jclouds";
+   }
+
+   @Test
+   public void testTemplateBuilder() {
+      Template defaultTemplate = client.templateBuilder().build();
+      assertEquals(defaultTemplate.getImage().getOperatingSystem().is64Bit(), true);
+      assertEquals(defaultTemplate.getImage().getOperatingSystem().getVersion(), "5.5");
+      assertEquals(defaultTemplate.getImage().getOperatingSystem().getFamily(), OsFamily.CENTOS);
+      assert defaultTemplate.getLocation().getDescription() != null;// different per org
+      assertEquals(getCores(defaultTemplate.getHardware()), 1.0d);
+   }
+
+   public void testAssignability() throws Exception {
+      @SuppressWarnings("unused")
+      RestContext<SymphonyVPDCClient, SymphonyVPDCAsyncClient> tmContext = new ComputeServiceContextFactory()
+            .createContext(provider, identity, credential).getProviderSpecificContext();
+   }
+
+   @Override
+   protected Template buildTemplate(TemplateBuilder templateBuilder) {
+      Template template = super.buildTemplate(templateBuilder);
+      Image image = template.getImage();
+      assert image.getDefaultCredentials() != null && image.getDefaultCredentials().identity != null : image;
+      assert image.getDefaultCredentials() != null && image.getDefaultCredentials().credential != null : image;
+      return template;
+   }
+
+   // currently, the wrong CIM OSType data is coming back.
+   @Override
+   protected void checkOsMatchesTemplate(NodeMetadata node) {
+      if (node.getOperatingSystem() != null)
+         assertEquals(node.getOperatingSystem().getFamily(), null);
+   }
+
+   @Override
+   public void testListImages() throws Exception {
+      for (Image image : client.listImages()) {
+         assert image.getProviderId() != null : image;
+         // image.getLocationId() can be null, if it is a location-free image
+         assertEquals(image.getType(), ComputeType.IMAGE);
+         if (image.getOperatingSystem().getFamily() != OsFamily.WINDOWS
+               && image.getOperatingSystem().getFamily() != OsFamily.SOLARIS) {
+            assert image.getDefaultCredentials() != null && image.getDefaultCredentials().identity != null : image;
+            assert image.getDefaultCredentials().credential != null : image;
+         }
+      }
+   }
+
+   @Override
+   public void testListNodes() throws Exception {
+      for (ComputeMetadata node : client.listNodes()) {
+         assert node.getProviderId() != null;
+         assert node.getLocation() != null;
+         assertEquals(node.getType(), ComputeType.NODE);
+         NodeMetadata allData = client.getNodeMetadata(node.getId());
+         System.out.println(allData.getHardware());
+         RestContext<SymphonyVPDCClient, SymphonyVPDCClient> tmContext = new ComputeServiceContextFactory()
+               .createContext(provider, identity, credential).getProviderSpecificContext();
+         VCloudExpressVApp vApp = tmContext.getApi().findVAppInOrgVDCNamed(null, null, allData.getName());
+         assertEquals(vApp.getName(), allData.getName());
+      }
+   }
+
+   @Override
+   public void testDestroyNodes() {
+      super.testDestroyNodes();
+   }
+
+   @Override
+   protected JschSshClientModule getSshModule() {
+      return new JschSshClientModule();
+   }
+
+}
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