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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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 assert = require("assert");
+import thrift = require("thrift");
+import Thrift = thrift.Thrift;
+import ThriftTest = require("./gen-nodejs/ThriftTest");
+import test_driver = require("./test_driver");
+import ThriftTestDriver = test_driver.ThriftTestDriver;
+import ThriftTestDriverPromise = test_driver.ThriftTestDriverPromise;
+
+// var program = require("commander");
+import * as program from "commander";
+
+program
+  .option("--port <port>", "Set thrift server port number to connect", 9090)
+  .option("--promise", "test with promise style functions")
+  .option("--protocol", "Set thrift protocol (binary) [protocol]")
+  .parse(process.argv);
+
+var port: number = program.port;
+var promise = program.promise;
+
+var options = {
+  transport: Thrift.TBufferedTransport,
+  protocol: Thrift.TBinaryProtocol
+};
+
+var testDriver = promise ? ThriftTestDriverPromise : ThriftTestDriver;
+
+var connection = thrift.createConnection("localhost", port, options);
+
+connection.on("error", function(err: string) {
+    assert(false, err);
+});
+
+var client = thrift.createClient(ThriftTest.Client, connection);
+runTests();
+
+function runTests() {
+  testDriver(client, function (status: string) {
+    console.log(status);
+    connection.end();
+  });
+}
+
+exports.expressoTest = function() {};