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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# Copyright 2012 C & P Bibliography Services
+#
+# This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
+# terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+# version.
+#
+# This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
+# WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
+# A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
+# Koha; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place,
+# Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307 USA
+#
+
+use Modern::Perl;
+use utf8;
+use Test::More;
+use Test::WWW::Mechanize;
+use Data::Dumper;
+use XML::Simple;
+use JSON;
+use File::Basename;
+use File::Spec;
+use POSIX;
+use Encode;
+
+my $testdir = File::Spec->rel2abs( dirname(__FILE__) );
+
+my $koha_conf = $ENV{KOHA_CONF};
+my $xml       = XMLin($koha_conf);
+
+use C4::Context;
+my $marcflavour = C4::Context->preference('marcflavour') || 'MARC21';
+
+# For the purpose of this test, we can reasonably take MARC21 and NORMARC to be the same
+my $file =
+  $marcflavour eq 'UNIMARC'
+  ? "$testdir/data/unimarcutf8record.mrc"
+  : "$testdir/data/marc21utf8record.mrc";
+
+my $user     = $ENV{KOHA_USER} || $xml->{config}->{user};
+my $password = $ENV{KOHA_PASS} || $xml->{config}->{pass};
+my $intranet = $ENV{KOHA_INTRANET_URL};
+my $opac     = $ENV{KOHA_OPAC_URL};
+
+my $zebra_on = ProgProcesses('zebrasrv');
+my $indexer_on = ProgProcesses('koha-index');
+
+if ($zebra_on < 2) {
+    plan skip_all => "Tests skip. You must start Zebra Server to do those tests\n";
+}
+
+if ($indexer_on < 2) {
+    plan skip_all => "Tests skip. You must start Zebra Background indexer to do those tests\n";
+}
+
+if (not defined $intranet) {
+   plan skip_all => "Tests skip. You must set env. variable KOHA_INTRANET_URL to do tests\n";
+}
+if (not defined $opac) {
+   plan skip_all => "Tests skip. You must set env. variable KOHA_INTRANET_URL to do tests\n";
+}
+
+$intranet =~ s#/$##;
+$opac     =~ s#/$##;
+
+my $agent = Test::WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );
+my $jsonresponse;
+
+# -------------------------------------------------- LOAD RECORD
+
+$agent->get_ok( "$intranet/cgi-bin/koha/mainpage.pl", 'connect to intranet' );
+$agent->form_name('loginform');
+$agent->field( 'password', $password );
+$agent->field( 'userid',   $user );
+$agent->field( 'branch',   '' );
+$agent->click_ok( '', 'login to staff client' );
+
+$agent->get_ok( "$intranet/cgi-bin/koha/mainpage.pl", 'load main page' );
+
+$agent->follow_link_ok( { url_regex => qr/tools-home/i }, 'open tools module' );
+$agent->follow_link_ok( { text => 'Stage MARC records for import' },
+    'go to stage MARC' );
+
+$agent->post(
+    "$intranet/cgi-bin/koha/tools/upload-file.pl",
+    [ 'fileToUpload' => [$file], ],
+    'Content_Type' => 'form-data',
+);
+ok( $agent->success, 'uploaded file' );
+
+$jsonresponse = decode_json $agent->content();
+is( $jsonresponse->{'status'}, 'done', 'upload succeeded' );
+my $fileid = $jsonresponse->{'fileid'};
+
+$agent->get_ok( "$intranet/cgi-bin/koha/tools/stage-marc-import.pl",
+    'reopen stage MARC page' );
+$agent->submit_form_ok(
+    {
+        form_number => 5,
+        fields      => {
+            'uploadedfileid'  => $fileid,
+            'nomatch_action'  => 'create_new',
+            'overlay_action'  => 'replace',
+            'item_action'     => 'always_add',
+            'matcher'         => '',
+            'comments'        => '',
+            'encoding'        => 'utf8',
+            'parse_items'     => '1',
+            'runinbackground' => '1',
+        }
+    },
+    'stage MARC'
+);
+
+$jsonresponse = decode_json $agent->content();
+my $jobID = $jsonresponse->{'jobID'};
+ok( $jobID, 'have job ID' );
+
+my $completed = 0;
+
+# if we haven't completed the batch in two minutes, it's not happening
+for my $counter ( 1 .. 24 ) {
+    $agent->get(
+        "$intranet/cgi-bin/koha/tools/background-job-progress.pl?jobID=$jobID",
+        "get job progress"
+    );
+    $jsonresponse = decode_json $agent->content();
+    if ( $jsonresponse->{'job_status'} eq 'completed' ) {
+        $completed = 1;
+        last;
+    }
+    warn(
+        (
+            $jsonresponse->{'job_size'}
+            ? floor(
+                100 * $jsonresponse->{'progress'} / $jsonresponse->{'job_size'}
+              )
+            : '100'
+        )
+        . "% completed"
+    );
+    sleep 5;
+}
+is( $jsonresponse->{'job_status'}, 'completed', 'job was completed' );
+
+$agent->get_ok(
+    "$intranet/cgi-bin/koha/tools/stage-marc-import.pl",
+    'reopen stage MARC page at end of upload'
+);
+$agent->submit_form_ok(
+    {
+        form_number => 5,
+        fields      => {
+            'uploadedfileid'  => $fileid,
+            'nomatch_action'  => 'create_new',
+            'overlay_action'  => 'replace',
+            'item_action'     => 'always_add',
+            'matcher'         => '1',
+            'comments'        => '',
+            'encoding'        => 'utf8',
+            'parse_items'     => '1',
+            'runinbackground' => '1',
+            'completedJobID'  => $jobID,
+        }
+    },
+    'stage MARC'
+);
+
+$agent->follow_link_ok( { text => 'Manage staged records' }, 'view batch' );
+
+
+$agent->form_number(5);
+$agent->field( 'framework', '' );
+$agent->click_ok( 'mainformsubmit', "imported records into catalog" );
+my $webpage = $agent->{content};
+
+$webpage =~ /(.*<title>.*?)(\d{1,})(.*<\/title>)/sx;
+my $id_batch = $2;
+
+#Wait the indexer
+sleep 35;
+
+# -------------------------------------------------- TEST ON OPAC
+
+
+$agent->get_ok( "$opac" , "got opac");
+$agent->form_name('searchform');
+$agent->field( 'q',   'deuteros' );
+$agent->field( 'idx',   '' );
+$agent->click( );
+
+# ok( $agent->success, 'uploaded file' );
+
+my $text = $agent->text() ;
+
+#Tests on UTF-8
+
+ok ( ( length(Encode::encode_utf8($text)) != length($text) ) , 'UTF-8 are multi-byte. Goog') ;
+ok ($text =~  m/学協会. μμ/, 'UTF-8 chars are correctly present. Good');
+
+
+
+#-------------------------------------------------- REVERT
+
+$agent->get_ok( "$intranet/cgi-bin/koha/tools/manage-marc-import.pl", 'view and clean batch' );
+$agent->form_name('clean_batch_'.$id_batch);
+$agent->click();
+
+done_testing();
+
+sub ProgProcesses {
+   return scalar grep /$_[0]/, (split /\n/, `ps -aef`);
+}