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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
+
+"""Unittests for the issueimport servlet."""
+from __future__ import print_function
+from __future__ import division
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+import unittest
+
+from framework import permissions
+from services import service_manager
+from testing import testing_helpers
+from tracker import issueimport
+from proto import tracker_pb2
+
+
+class IssueExportTest(unittest.TestCase):
+
+  def setUp(self):
+    self.services = service_manager.Services()
+    self.servlet = issueimport.IssueImport(
+        'req', 'res', services=self.services)
+    self.event_log = None
+
+  def testAssertBasePermission(self):
+    """Only site admins can import issues."""
+    mr = testing_helpers.MakeMonorailRequest(
+        perms=permissions.OWNER_ACTIVE_PERMISSIONSET)
+    self.assertRaises(permissions.PermissionException,
+                      self.servlet.AssertBasePermission, mr)
+    mr.auth.user_pb.is_site_admin = True
+    self.servlet.AssertBasePermission(mr)
+
+  def testParseComment(self):
+    """Test a Comment JSON is correctly parsed."""
+    users_id_dict = {'adam@test.com': 111}
+    json = {
+        'timestamp': 123,
+        'commenter': 'adam@test.com',
+        'content': 'so basically, what I was thinkig of',
+        'amendments': [],
+        'attachments': [],
+        'description_num': None,
+        }
+    comment = self.servlet._ParseComment(
+        12, users_id_dict, json, self.event_log)
+    self.assertEqual(
+        comment, tracker_pb2.IssueComment(
+            project_id=12, timestamp=123, user_id=111,
+            content='so basically, what I was thinkig of'))
+
+    json_desc = {
+        'timestamp': 223,
+        'commenter': 'adam@test.com',
+        'content': 'I cant believe youve done this',
+        'description_num': '2',
+        'amendments': [],
+        'attachments': [],
+    }
+    desc_comment = self.servlet._ParseComment(
+        12, users_id_dict, json_desc, self.event_log)
+    self.assertEqual(
+        desc_comment, tracker_pb2.IssueComment(
+            project_id=12, timestamp=223, user_id=111,
+            content='I cant believe youve done this',
+            is_description=True))