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+/*
+ * Copyright 2017-present Open Networking Foundation
+
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+import * as angular from 'angular';
+import 'angular-mocks';
+import 'angular-ui-router';
+import {xosDebugModel} from './debug-model';
+
+const MockConfigHelpers = {
+  toLabel: jasmine.createSpy('toLabel')
+};
+
+const model = {
+  policed: 1503009920,
+  backend_register: '{\"next_run\": 0, \"last_success\": 1502860176.52445, \"exponent\": 0}',
+  backend_status: '1 - OK',
+  id: 1,
+  backend_need_delete: true,
+  self_content_type_id: 'core.instance',
+  backend_need_reap: false,
+  no_sync: false,
+  updated: 1503009920,
+  deleted: false,
+  policy_status: '2 - AuthorizationFailure(Authorization Failed: SSL exception connecting to https://192.168.108.119:5000/v2.0/tokens,) // Exception(Ansible playbook failed. // Error in creating the server, please check logs,) // The VM is available but not Active. state:ERROR,)',
+  lazy_blocked: false,
+  enacted: 1503009920,
+  enabled: 1503009920,
+  leaf_model_name: 'Instance',
+  created: 1503009920,
+  write_protect: false,
+  no_policy: false,
+  class_names: 'Instance,XOSBase'
+};
+
+describe('The xosDebugModel component', () => {
+  let scope, rootScope, element, compile , isolatedScope;
+
+  const compileElement = () => {
+
+    if (!scope) {
+      scope = rootScope.$new();
+    }
+
+    element = angular.element(`<xos-debug-model ng-model="model"></xos-debug-model>`);
+    compile(element)(scope);
+    scope.$digest();
+    isolatedScope = element.isolateScope().vm;
+  };
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    angular.module('xosDebugModel', [])
+      .component('xosDebugModel', xosDebugModel)
+      .value('ConfigHelpers', MockConfigHelpers);
+    angular.mock.module('xosDebugModel');
+
+    inject(($compile: ng.ICompileService, $rootScope: ng.IScope) => {
+      rootScope = $rootScope;
+      compile = $compile;
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('should have a toLabel method', () => {
+    compileElement();
+    expect(isolatedScope.toLabel).toBeDefined();
+    isolatedScope.toLabel('a');
+    expect(MockConfigHelpers.toLabel).toHaveBeenCalledWith('a');
+  });
+
+  describe('the parseField method', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      scope = rootScope.$new();
+      scope.model = model;
+      compileElement();
+    });
+
+    it('should convert dates', () => {
+      const dateFields = ['created', 'updated', 'enacted', 'policed'];
+
+      dateFields.forEach(f => {
+        const date = isolatedScope.parseField(f, model[f]);
+        expect(date).toEqual('Thu Aug 17 2017 15:45:20 GMT-0700 (PDT)');
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('should convert strings to JSON', () => {
+      const res = isolatedScope.parseField('backend_register', model['backend_register']);
+      expect(res.next_run).toBe(0);
+      expect(res.exponent).toBe(0);
+    });
+
+    it('should parse backend_status and policy_status', () => {
+      const policy = isolatedScope.parseField('policy_status', model['policy_status']);
+      expect(policy.match(/\n/g).length).toBe(3);
+    });
+  });
+});