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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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.
+ */
+var thrift = require('thrift');
+
+var UserStorage = require('./gen-nodejs/UserStorage.js'),
+    ttypes = require('./gen-nodejs/user_types');
+
+var connection = thrift.createConnection('localhost', 9090),
+    client = thrift.createClient(UserStorage, connection);
+
+var user = new ttypes.UserProfile({uid: 1,
+                                   name: "Mark Slee",
+                                   blurb: "I'll find something to put here."});
+
+connection.on('error', function(err) {
+  console.error(err);
+});
+
+client.store(user, function(err, response) {
+  if (err) {
+    console.error(err);
+  } else {
+    console.log("client stored:", user.uid);
+    client.retrieve(user.uid, function(err, responseUser) {
+      if (err) {
+        console.error(err);
+      } else {
+        console.log("client retrieved:", responseUser.uid);
+        connection.end();
+      }
+    });
+  }
+});