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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.
+ */
+
+//Node client test for the following I/O stack:
+//    TJSONProtocol
+//    TBufferedTransport
+//    TSocket
+
+var assert = require('assert');
+var thrift = require('thrift');
+var TBufferedTransport = require('thrift/transport').TBufferedTransport;
+var TJSONProtocol = require('thrift/protocol').TJSONProtocol;
+var ThriftTest = require('./gen-nodejs/ThriftTest');
+var ThriftTestDriver = require('./thrift_test_driver').ThriftTestDriver;
+
+var connection = thrift.createConnection('localhost', 9090, 
+	                { protocol: TJSONProtocol, transport: TBufferedTransport} );
+var client = thrift.createClient(ThriftTest, connection);
+
+connection.on('error', function(err) {
+  assert(false, err);
+});
+
+ThriftTestDriver(client, function (status) {
+  console.log(status);
+  connection.end();
+});
+
+// to make it also run on expresso
+exports.expressoTest = function() {};
+