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+# Copyright (c) 2014 Mirantis Inc.
+#
+#    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.
+
+from tempest.api.data_processing import base as dp_base
+from tempest.common.utils import data_utils
+from tempest import test
+
+
+class ClusterTemplateTest(dp_base.BaseDataProcessingTest):
+    """Link to the API documentation is http://docs.openstack.org/developer/
+    sahara/restapi/rest_api_v1.0.html#cluster-templates
+    """
+    @classmethod
+    def setUpClass(cls):
+        super(ClusterTemplateTest, cls).setUpClass()
+        # create node group template
+        node_group_template = {
+            'name': data_utils.rand_name('sahara-ng-template'),
+            'description': 'Test node group template',
+            'plugin_name': 'vanilla',
+            'hadoop_version': '1.2.1',
+            'node_processes': ['datanode'],
+            'flavor_id': cls.flavor_ref,
+            'node_configs': {
+                'HDFS': {
+                    'Data Node Heap Size': 1024
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        resp_body = cls.create_node_group_template(**node_group_template)[1]
+
+        cls.full_cluster_template = {
+            'description': 'Test cluster template',
+            'plugin_name': 'vanilla',
+            'hadoop_version': '1.2.1',
+            'cluster_configs': {
+                'HDFS': {
+                    'dfs.replication': 2
+                },
+                'MapReduce': {
+                    'mapred.map.tasks.speculative.execution': False,
+                    'mapred.child.java.opts': '-Xmx500m'
+                },
+                'general': {
+                    'Enable Swift': False
+                }
+            },
+            'node_groups': [
+                {
+                    'name': 'master-node',
+                    'flavor_id': cls.flavor_ref,
+                    'node_processes': ['namenode'],
+                    'count': 1
+                },
+                {
+                    'name': 'worker-node',
+                    'node_group_template_id': resp_body['id'],
+                    'count': 3
+                }
+            ]
+        }
+        # create cls.cluster_template variable to use for comparison to cluster
+        # template response body. The 'node_groups' field in the response body
+        # has some extra info that post body does not have. The 'node_groups'
+        # field in the response body is something like this
+        #
+        #   'node_groups': [
+        #       {
+        #           'count': 3,
+        #           'name': 'worker-node',
+        #           'volume_mount_prefix': '/volumes/disk',
+        #           'created_at': '2014-05-21 14:31:37',
+        #           'updated_at': None,
+        #           'floating_ip_pool': None,
+        #           ...
+        #       },
+        #       ...
+        #   ]
+        cls.cluster_template = cls.full_cluster_template.copy()
+        del cls.cluster_template['node_groups']
+
+    def _create_cluster_template(self, template_name=None):
+        """Creates Cluster Template with optional name specified.
+
+        It creates template and ensures response status, template name and
+        response body. Returns id and name of created template.
+        """
+        if not template_name:
+            # generate random name if it's not specified
+            template_name = data_utils.rand_name('sahara-cluster-template')
+
+        # create cluster template
+        resp, body = self.create_cluster_template(template_name,
+                                                  **self.full_cluster_template)
+
+        # ensure that template created successfully
+        self.assertEqual(202, resp.status)
+        self.assertEqual(template_name, body['name'])
+        self.assertDictContainsSubset(self.cluster_template, body)
+
+        return body['id'], template_name
+
+    @test.attr(type='smoke')
+    def test_cluster_template_create(self):
+        self._create_cluster_template()
+
+    @test.attr(type='smoke')
+    def test_cluster_template_list(self):
+        template_info = self._create_cluster_template()
+
+        # check for cluster template in list
+        resp, templates = self.client.list_cluster_templates()
+        self.assertEqual(200, resp.status)
+        templates_info = [(template['id'], template['name'])
+                          for template in templates]
+        self.assertIn(template_info, templates_info)
+
+    @test.attr(type='smoke')
+    def test_cluster_template_get(self):
+        template_id, template_name = self._create_cluster_template()
+
+        # check cluster template fetch by id
+        resp, template = self.client.get_cluster_template(template_id)
+        self.assertEqual(200, resp.status)
+        self.assertEqual(template_name, template['name'])
+        self.assertDictContainsSubset(self.cluster_template, template)
+
+    @test.attr(type='smoke')
+    def test_cluster_template_delete(self):
+        template_id = self._create_cluster_template()[0]
+
+        # delete the cluster template by id
+        resp = self.client.delete_cluster_template(template_id)[0]
+        self.assertEqual(204, resp.status)
+        #TODO(ylobankov): check that cluster template is really deleted