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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# This file is part of beets.
+# Copyright 2019, Carl Suster
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+# "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+# without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+# distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+# permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+# the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+# included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+"""Test the beets.export utilities associated with the export plugin.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import division, absolute_import, print_function
+
+import unittest
+from test import helper
+from test.helper import TestHelper
+#from beetsplug.export import ExportPlugin, ExportFormat, JSONFormat, CSVFormat, XMLFormat
+#from collections import namedtuple
+
+
+class ExportPluginTest(unittest.TestCase, TestHelper):
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.setup_beets()
+        self.load_plugins('export')
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        self.unload_plugins()
+        self.teardown_beets()
+
+    def test_json_output(self):
+        item1, item2 = self.add_item_fixtures(count=2)
+        item1.album = 'talbum'
+        item1.artist = "tartist"
+        item1.track = "ttrack"
+        item1.write()
+        item1.store()
+
+        out = self.run_with_output('export', '-f json -i "track,album" tartist')
+        self.assertIn('"track": "' + item1.track + '"', out)
+        self.assertIn('"album": "' + item1.album + '"', out)
+    
+    def test_csv_output(self):
+        item1, item2 = self.add_item_fixtures(count=2)
+        item1.album = 'talbum'
+        item1.artist = "tartist"
+        item1.track = "ttrack"
+        item1.write()
+        item1.store()
+
+        out = self.run_with_output('export', '-f json -i "track,album" tartist')
+        self.assertIn(item1.track + ',' + item1.album,  out)
+    
+    def test_xml_output(self):
+        item1, item2 = self.add_item_fixtures(count=2)
+        item1.album = 'talbum'
+        item1.artist = "tartist"
+        item1.track = "ttrack"
+        item1.write()
+        item1.store()
+
+        out = self.run_with_output('export', '-f json -i "track,album" tartist')
+        self.assertIn("<title>" + item1.track + "</title>", out)
+        self.assertIn("<album>" + item1.album + "</album>", out)
+
+    """
+    def setUp(self):
+        Opts = namedtuple('Opts', 'output append included_keys library format')
+        self.args = None
+        self._export = ExportPlugin()
+        included_keys = ['title,artist,album']
+        self.opts = Opts(None, False, included_keys, True, "json")
+        self.export_format_classes = {"json": ExportFormat, "csv": CSVFormat, "xml": XMLFormat}
+
+    def test_run(self, _format="json"):
+        self.opts.format = _format
+        self._export.run(lib=self.lib, opts=self.opts, args=self.args)
+        # 1.) Test that the ExportFormat Factory class method invoked the correct class 
+        self.assertEqual(type(self._export.export_format), self.export_format_classes[_format])
+        # 2.) Test that the cmd parser options specified were processed in correctly
+        self.assertEqual(self._export.export_format.path, self.opts.output)
+        mode = 'a' if self.opts.append else 'w'
+        self.assertEqual(self._export.export_format.mode, mode)
+    """
+
+
+
+def suite():
+    return unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromName(__name__)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main(defaultTest='suite')
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