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+#
+# Copyright 2014 Red Hat
+#
+# Author: Chris Dent <chdent@redhat.com>
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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 import config
+from tempest.openstack.common import log as logging
+from tempest.scenario import manager
+from tempest import test
+
+CONF = config.CONF
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+# Loop for up to 120 seconds waiting on notifications
+# NOTE(chdent): The choice of 120 seconds is fairly
+# arbitrary: Long enough to give the notifications the
+# chance to travel across a highly latent bus but not
+# so long as to allow excessive latency to never be visible.
+# TODO(chdent): Ideally this value would come from configuration.
+NOTIFICATIONS_WAIT = 120
+NOTIFICATIONS_SLEEP = 1
+
+
+class TestSwiftTelemetry(manager.SwiftScenarioTest):
+    """
+    Test that swift uses the ceilometer middleware.
+     * create container.
+     * upload a file to the created container.
+     * retrieve the file from the created container.
+     * wait for notifications from ceilometer.
+    """
+
+    @classmethod
+    def resource_setup(cls):
+        if not CONF.service_available.ceilometer:
+            skip_msg = ("%s skipped as ceilometer is not available" %
+                        cls.__name__)
+            raise cls.skipException(skip_msg)
+        super(TestSwiftTelemetry, cls).resource_setup()
+        cls.telemetry_client = cls.manager.telemetry_client
+
+    def _confirm_notifications(self, container_name, obj_name):
+        """
+        Loop seeking for appropriate notifications about the containers
+        and objects sent to swift.
+        """
+
+        def _check_samples():
+            """
+            Return True only if we have notifications about some
+            containers and some objects and the notifications are about
+            the expected containers and objects.
+            Otherwise returning False will case _check_samples to be
+            called again.
+            """
+            _, results = self.telemetry_client.list_samples(
+                'storage.api.request')
+            LOG.debug('got samples %s', results)
+
+            # Extract container info from samples.
+            containers = [sample['resource_metadata']['container']
+                          for sample in results
+                          if sample['resource_metadata']['container']
+                          != 'None']
+            # Extract object info from samples.
+            objects = [sample['resource_metadata']['object']
+                       for sample in results
+                       if sample['resource_metadata']['object'] != 'None']
+
+            return (containers
+                    and objects
+                    and container_name in containers
+                    and obj_name in objects)
+
+        self.assertTrue(test.call_until_true(_check_samples,
+                                             NOTIFICATIONS_WAIT,
+                                             NOTIFICATIONS_SLEEP),
+                        'Correct notifications were not received after '
+                        '%s seconds.' % NOTIFICATIONS_WAIT)
+
+    @test.services('object_storage', 'telemetry')
+    def test_swift_middleware_notifies(self):
+        container_name = self.create_container()
+        obj_name, _ = self.upload_object_to_container(container_name)
+        self._confirm_notifications(container_name, obj_name)