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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.
+--
+
+require 'TTransport'
+
+TMemoryBuffer = TTransportBase:new{
+  __type = 'TMemoryBuffer',
+  buffer = '',
+  bufferSize = 1024,
+  wPos = 0,
+  rPos = 0
+}
+function TMemoryBuffer:isOpen()
+  return 1
+end
+function TMemoryBuffer:open() end
+function TMemoryBuffer:close() end
+
+function TMemoryBuffer:peak()
+  return self.rPos < self.wPos
+end
+
+function TMemoryBuffer:getBuffer()
+  return self.buffer
+end
+
+function TMemoryBuffer:resetBuffer(buf)
+  if buf then
+    self.buffer = buf
+    self.bufferSize = string.len(buf)
+  else
+    self.buffer = ''
+    self.bufferSize = 1024
+  end
+  self.wPos = string.len(buf)
+  self.rPos = 0
+end
+
+function TMemoryBuffer:available()
+  return self.wPos - self.rPos
+end
+
+function TMemoryBuffer:read(len)
+  local avail = self:available()
+  if avail == 0 then
+    return ''
+  end
+
+  if avail < len then
+    len = avail
+  end
+
+  local val = string.sub(self.buffer, self.rPos, len)
+  self.rPos = self.rPos + len
+  return val
+end
+
+function TMemoryBuffer:readAll(len)
+  local avail = self:available()
+
+  if avail < len then
+    local msg = string.format('Attempt to readAll(%d) found only %d available',
+                              len, avail)
+    terror(TTransportException:new{message = msg})
+  end
+  -- read should block so we don't need a loop here
+  return self:read(len)
+end
+
+function TMemoryBuffer:write(buf)
+  self.buffer = self.buffer + buf
+  self.wPos = self.wPos + buf
+end
+
+function TMemoryBuffer:flush() end