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+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
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+# 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 unittest
+import random
+import string
+
+import _import_local_thrift  # noqa
+from thrift.transport import TTransport
+from thrift.transport import TZlibTransport
+
+
+def generate_random_buff():
+    data = []
+    buf_len = 1024 * 32
+    index = 0
+
+    while index < buf_len:
+        run_len = random.randint(1, 64)
+        if index + run_len > buf_len:
+            run_len = buf_len - index
+        for i in range(run_len):
+            data.extend(random.sample(string.printable, 1))
+        index += 1
+
+    new_data = ''.join(data)
+    return new_data
+
+
+class TestTZlibTransport(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_write_then_read(self):
+        buff = TTransport.TMemoryBuffer()
+        trans = TTransport.TBufferedTransportFactory().getTransport(buff)
+        zlib_trans = TZlibTransport.TZlibTransport(trans)
+        data_w = generate_random_buff()
+        zlib_trans.write(data_w.encode('utf-8'))
+        zlib_trans.flush()
+
+        value = buff.getvalue()
+        zlib_trans.close()
+
+        buff = TTransport.TMemoryBuffer(value)
+        trans = TTransport.TBufferedTransportFactory().getTransport(buff)
+        zlib_trans = TZlibTransport.TZlibTransport(trans)
+        data_r = zlib_trans.read(len(data_w))
+        zlib_trans.close()
+
+        try:
+            self.assertEqual(data_w, data_r.decode('utf-8'))
+            self.assertEqual(len(data_w), len(data_r.decode('utf-8')))
+        except AssertionError:
+            raise
+
+    def test_after_flushd_write_then_read(self):
+        buff = TTransport.TMemoryBuffer()
+        trans = TTransport.TBufferedTransportFactory().getTransport(buff)
+        zlib_trans = TZlibTransport.TZlibTransport(trans)
+        data_w_1 = "hello thrift !@#" * 50
+        zlib_trans.write(data_w_1.encode('utf-8'))
+        zlib_trans.flush()
+        data_w_2 = "{'name': 'thrift', 1: ['abcd' , 233, ('a','c')]}" * 20
+        zlib_trans.write(data_w_2.encode('utf-8'))
+        zlib_trans.flush()
+
+        value = buff.getvalue()
+        zlib_trans.close()
+
+        buff = TTransport.TMemoryBuffer(value)
+        trans = TTransport.TBufferedTransportFactory().getTransport(buff)
+        zlib_trans = TZlibTransport.TZlibTransport(trans)
+        data_r = zlib_trans.read(len(data_w_1) + len(data_w_2))
+        zlib_trans.close()
+
+        try:
+            self.assertEqual(data_w_1 + data_w_2, data_r.decode('utf-8'))
+            self.assertEqual(len(data_w_1) + len(data_w_2), len(data_r.decode('utf-8')))
+        except AssertionError:
+            raise
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()