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+# Copyright 2016 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+# license that can be found in the LICENSE file or at
+# https://developers.google.com/open-source/licenses/bsd
+
+"""Helpers for testing."""
+from __future__ import print_function
+from __future__ import division
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+import email
+
+from framework import emailfmt
+from framework import framework_bizobj
+from proto import user_pb2
+from services import service_manager
+from services import template_svc
+from testing import fake
+from tracker import tracker_constants
+import webapp2
+
+DEFAULT_HOST = '127.0.0.1'
+
+MINIMAL_HEADER_LINES = [
+    ('From', 'user@example.com'),
+    ('To', 'proj@monorail.example.com'),
+    ('Cc', 'ningerso@chromium.org'),
+    ('Subject', 'Issue 123 in proj: broken link'),
+]
+
+# Add one more (long) line for In-Reply-To
+HEADER_LINES = MINIMAL_HEADER_LINES + [
+    ('In-Reply-To', '<0=969704940193871313=13442892928193434663='
+     'proj@monorail.example.com>'),
+]
+
+AlertEmailHeader = emailfmt.AlertEmailHeader
+ALERT_EMAIL_HEADER_LINES = HEADER_LINES + [
+    (AlertEmailHeader.INCIDENT_ID, '1234567890123456789'),
+    (AlertEmailHeader.OWNER, 'owner@example.com'),
+    (AlertEmailHeader.CC, 'cc1@example.com,cc2@example.com'),
+    (AlertEmailHeader.PRIORITY, '0'),
+    (AlertEmailHeader.STATUS, 'Unconfirmed'),
+    (AlertEmailHeader.COMPONENT, 'Component'),
+    (AlertEmailHeader.TYPE, 'Bug'),
+    (AlertEmailHeader.OS, 'Android,Windows'),
+    (AlertEmailHeader.LABEL, ''),
+]
+
+
+# TODO(crbug/monorail/7238): this should be moved to framework_bizobj
+# as this is no longer only used for testing.
+def ObscuredEmail(address):
+  (_username, _domain, _obs_username,
+   obs_email) = framework_bizobj.ParseAndObscureAddress(address)
+  return obs_email
+
+def MakeMessage(header_list, body):
+  """Convenience function to make an email.message.Message."""
+  msg = email.message.Message()
+  for key, value in header_list:
+    msg[key] = value
+  msg.set_payload(body)
+  return msg
+
+
+def MakeMonorailRequest(*args, **kwargs):
+  """Get just the monorailrequest.MonorailRequest() from GetRequestObjects."""
+  _request, mr = GetRequestObjects(*args, **kwargs)
+  return mr
+
+
+def GetRequestObjects(
+    headers=None, path='/', params=None, payload=None, user_info=None,
+    project=None, method='GET', perms=None, services=None, hotlist=None):
+  """Make fake request and MonorailRequest objects for testing.
+
+  Host param will override the 'Host' header, and has a default value of
+  '127.0.0.1'.
+
+  Args:
+    headers: Dict of HTTP header strings.
+    path: Path part of the URL in the request.
+    params: Dict of query-string parameters.
+    user_info: Dict of user attributes to set on a MonorailRequest object.
+        For example, "user_id: 5" causes self.auth.user_id=5.
+    project: optional Project object for the current request.
+    method: 'GET' or 'POST'.
+    perms: PermissionSet to use for this request.
+    services: Connections to backends.
+    hotlist: optional Hotlist object for the current request
+
+  Returns:
+    A tuple of (http Request, monorailrequest.MonorailRequest()).
+  """
+  headers = headers or {}
+  params = params or {}
+
+  headers.setdefault('Host', DEFAULT_HOST)
+  post_items=None
+  if method == 'POST' and payload:
+    post_items = payload
+  elif method == 'POST' and params:
+    post_items = params
+
+  if not services:
+    services = service_manager.Services(
+        project=fake.ProjectService(),
+        user=fake.UserService(),
+        usergroup=fake.UserGroupService(),
+        features=fake.FeaturesService())
+    services.project.TestAddProject('proj')
+    services.features.TestAddHotlist('hotlist')
+
+  request = webapp2.Request.blank(path, headers=headers, POST=post_items)
+  mr = fake.MonorailRequest(
+      services, user_info=user_info, project=project, perms=perms,
+      params=params, hotlist=hotlist)
+  mr.ParseRequest(
+      request, services, do_user_lookups=False)
+  mr.auth.user_pb = user_pb2.MakeUser(0)
+  return request, mr
+
+
+class Blank(object):
+  """Simple class that assigns all named args to attributes.
+
+  Tip: supply a lambda to define a method.
+  """
+
+  def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+    vars(self).update(kwargs)
+
+  def __repr__(self):
+    return '%s(%s)' % (self.__class__.__name__, str(vars(self)))
+
+  def __eq__(self, other):
+    if other is None:
+      return False
+    return vars(self) == vars(other)
+
+
+def DefaultTemplateRows():
+  return [(
+    None,
+    789,
+    template_dict['name'],
+    template_dict['content'],
+    template_dict['summary'],
+    template_dict.get('summary_must_be_edited'),
+    None,
+    template_dict['status'],
+    template_dict.get('members_only', False),
+    template_dict.get('owner_defaults_to_member', True),
+    template_dict.get('component_required', False),
+    ) for template_dict in tracker_constants.DEFAULT_TEMPLATES]
+
+
+def DefaultTemplates():
+  return [template_svc.UnpackTemplate(t) for t in DefaultTemplateRows()]