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-package edu.uci.ics.genomix.hadoop.pmcommon;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.Arrays;
-
-import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
-import org.apache.hadoop.io.NullWritable;
-import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
-import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.SequenceFileOutputFormat;
-import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.lib.MultipleOutputs;
-import org.apache.hadoop.mrunit.MapDriver;
-import org.apache.hadoop.mrunit.ReduceDriver;
-import org.junit.Test;
-
-import edu.uci.ics.genomix.hadoop.graphclean.mergepaths.h3.MergePathsH3.MergeMessageFlag;
-import edu.uci.ics.genomix.hadoop.pmcommon.NodeWithFlagWritable;
-import edu.uci.ics.genomix.hadoop.pmcommon.PathNodeInitial;
-import edu.uci.ics.genomix.type.KmerBytesWritable;
-import edu.uci.ics.genomix.type.NodeWritable;
-import edu.uci.ics.genomix.type.PositionListWritable;
-import edu.uci.ics.genomix.type.PositionWritable;
-
-@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
-public class TestPathNodeInitial {
-    PositionWritable posn1 = new PositionWritable(0, (byte) 1);
-    PositionWritable posn2 = new PositionWritable(1, (byte) 1);
-    PositionWritable posn3 = new PositionWritable(2, (byte) 1);
-    PositionWritable posn4 = new PositionWritable(3, (byte) 1);
-    PositionWritable posn5 = new PositionWritable(5, (byte) 1);
-    String kmerString = "ATGCA";
-    KmerBytesWritable kmer = new KmerBytesWritable(kmerString.length(), kmerString);
-    JobConf conf = new JobConf();
-    MultipleOutputs mos = new MultipleOutputs(conf); 
-
-    {
-        conf.set("sizeKmer", String.valueOf(kmerString.length()));
-    }
-
-//    @Test
-    public void testNoNeighbors() throws IOException {
-        NodeWritable noNeighborNode = new NodeWritable(posn1, new PositionListWritable(), new PositionListWritable(),
-                new PositionListWritable(), new PositionListWritable(), kmer);
-        NodeWithFlagWritable output = new NodeWithFlagWritable((byte) (MergeMessageFlag.MSG_SELF | MergeMessageFlag.IS_COMPLETE), noNeighborNode);
-        // test mapper
-        new MapDriver<NodeWritable, NullWritable, PositionWritable, NodeWithFlagWritable>()
-                .withMapper(new PathNodeInitial.PathNodeInitialMapper())
-                .withConfiguration(conf)
-                .withInput(noNeighborNode, NullWritable.get())
-                .withOutput(posn1, output)
-                .runTest();
-        // test reducer
-//        MultipleOutputs.addNamedOutput(conf, "complete", SequenceFileOutputFormat.class, PositionWritable.class, MessageWritableNodeWithFlag.class);
-        new ReduceDriver<PositionWritable, NodeWithFlagWritable, PositionWritable, NodeWithFlagWritable>()
-                .withReducer(new PathNodeInitial.PathNodeInitialReducer())
-                .withConfiguration(conf)
-                .withInput(posn1, Arrays.asList(output))
-                .runTest();
-    }    
-}