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+# vim: set encoding=utf-8
+
+#  Copyright (c) 2016 Intel Corporation 
+#
+#  Licensed 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.
+#
+
+""" Global Config file for testcases, used heavily by automation"""
+import os
+
+
+root = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))))
+dataset_directory = os.path.join(root, "regression-tests", "datasets")
+hdfs_namenode = os.getenv("CDH_MASTER", "localhost")
+user = os.getenv("USER", "hadoop")
+run_mode = True if os.getenv("RUN_MODE", "yarn_client") == "yarn_client" else False
+hostname = os.getenv("HOSTNAME")
+
+# HDFS paths, need to be set NOT using os.join since HDFS doesn't use the system
+# path seperator, it uses HDFS path seperator ('/')
+hdfs_user_root = "/user/" + user
+hdfs_data_dir = hdfs_user_root + "/qa_data"
+checkpoint_dir = hdfs_user_root + "/sparktk_checkpoint"
+export_dir = "hdfs://"+hostname+":8020"+hdfs_user_root+"/sparktk_export"
+
+scoring_engine_host = os.getenv("SCORING_ENGINE_HOST", "127.0.0.1")
+port = 8020
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+# vim: set encoding=utf-8
+
+#  Copyright (c) 2016 Intel Corporation 
+#
+#  Licensed 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.
+#
+
+""" Library to support scoring in TAP for the ATK service """
+import subprocess as sp
+import requests
+import time
+import signal
+import os
+import config
+
+
+class scorer(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, hdfs_path=None, port=config.port, pipeline=False, host=config.scoring_engine_host):
+        """Set up the server location, port and model file"""
+        self.name = host.split('.')[0]
+        self.host = host
+        self.pipeline = pipeline
+        self.port = port
+        self.scoring_process = None
+        self.hdfs_path = hdfs_path
+        self.full_host_url = "http://" + str(self.host) + ":" + str(self.port)
+
+    def __enter__(self):
+        """Activate the Server"""
+        # change current working directory to point at scoring_engine dir
+        run_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(config.root, "model-scoring-core"))
+
+        # keep track of cwd for future
+        test_dir = os.getcwd()
+        os.chdir(run_path)
+
+        # make a new process group
+        if self.hdfs_path:
+            self.scoring_process = sp.Popen(["./bin/scoring-server.sh",
+                                             "-Dtrustedanalytics.scoring-engine.archive-mar=%s" % self.hdfs_path,
+                                             "-Dtrustedanalytics.scoring.host=%s" % self.host,
+                                             "-Dtrustedanalytics.scoring.port=%s" % self.port], preexec_fn=os.setsid)
+        else:
+            self.scoring_process = sp.Popen(["./bin/scoring-server.sh",
+                                             "-Dtrustedanalytics.scoring.host=%s" % self.host,
+                                             "-Dtrustedanalytics.scoring.port=%s" % self.port], preexec_fn=os.setsid)
+
+        # restore cwd
+        os.chdir(test_dir)
+
+        # wait for server to start
+        time.sleep(20)
+
+        return self
+
+    def __exit__(self, *args):
+        """Teardown the server"""
+        # Get the process group to kill all of the suprocesses
+        pgrp = os.getpgid(self.scoring_process.pid)
+        os.killpg(pgrp, signal.SIGKILL)
+        time.sleep(50)
+
+    def upload_mar_bytes(self, file_bytes):
+        """gives mar file to empty scoring server as bytes data"""
+        requests.post(url=self.full_host_url + "/uploadMarBytes",
+                      data=file_bytes,
+                      headers={"Content-type": "application/octet-stream"})
+
+    def upload_mar_file(self, files):
+        """gives a mar file to a an empty scoring server"""
+        requests.post(url=self.full_host_url + "/uploadMarFile", files=files)
+
+    def score(self, data_val):
+        """score the json set data_val"""
+
+        # Magic headers to make the server respond appropriately
+        # Ask the head of scoring why these
+        headers = {'Content-type': 'application/json',
+                   'Accept': 'application/json,text/plain'}
+
+        response = requests.post(
+                self.full_host_url + "/v2/score", json={"records": data_val}, headers=headers)
+
+        return response
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+# vim: set encoding=utf-8
+
+#  Copyright (c) 2016 Intel Corporation 
+#
+#  Licensed 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.
+#
+
+"""Setup up tests for regression """
+
+import unittest
+import uuid
+import datetime
+import os
+import daaltk
+
+import sparktk as stk
+
+import config
+from threading import Lock
+udf_lib_path = os.path.join(config.root, "regression-tests", "sparktkregtests", "lib" ,"udftestlib")
+udf_files = [os.path.join(udf_lib_path, f) for f in os.listdir(udf_lib_path)]
+
+lock = Lock()
+global_tc = None
+
+
+def get_context():
+    global global_tc
+    with lock:
+        if global_tc is None:
+            sparktkconf_dict = {'spark.driver.maxPermSize': '512m',
+                                'spark.ui.enabled': 'false',
+                                'spark.driver.maxResultSize': '2g',
+                                'spark.dynamicAllocation.enabled': 'true',
+                                'spark.dynamicAllocation.maxExecutors': '16',
+                                'spark.dynamicAllocation.minExecutors': '1',
+                                'spark.executor.cores': '2',
+                                'spark.executor.memory': '2g',
+                                'spark.shuffle.io.preferDirectBufs': 'true',
+                                'spark.shuffle.service.enabled': 'true',
+                                'spark.yarn.am.waitTime': '1000000',
+                                'spark.yarn.executor.memoryOverhead': '384',
+                                'spark.eventLog.enabled': 'false',
+                                'spark.sql.shuffle.partitions': '6'}
+            if config.run_mode:
+                global_tc = stk.TkContext(master='yarn-client', extra_conf_dict=sparktkconf_dict, py_files=udf_files)
+            else:
+                global_tc = stk.TkContext(py_files=udf_files)
+
+        return global_tc
+
+
+class SparkTKTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    @classmethod
+    def setUpClass(cls):
+        """Build the context for use"""
+        cls.context = get_context()
+        cls.context.sc.setCheckpointDir(config.checkpoint_dir)
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        pass
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        pass
+
+    @classmethod
+    def tearDownClass(cls):
+        pass
+
+    def get_file(self, filename):
+        """Return the hdfs path to the given file"""
+        # Note this is an HDFS path, not a userspace path. os.path library
+        # may be wrong
+        placed_path = config.hdfs_data_dir + "/" + filename
+        return placed_path
+
+    def get_export_file(self, filename):
+        # Note this is an HDFS path, not a userspace path. os.path library
+        # may be wrong
+        placed_path = config.export_dir + "/" + filename
+        return placed_path
+
+    def get_name(self, prefix):
+        """build a guid hardened unique name """
+        datestamp = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%m_%d_%H_%M_")
+        name = prefix + datestamp + uuid.uuid1().hex
+        return name
+
+    def get_local_dataset(self, dataset):
+        """gets the dataset from the dataset folder"""
+        dataset_directory = config.dataset_directory
+        return os.path.join(dataset_directory, dataset)
+
+    def assertFramesEqual(self, frame1, frame2):
+        frame1_take = frame1.take(frame1.count())
+        frame2_take = frame2.take(frame2.count())
+
+        self.assertItemsEqual(frame1_take, frame2_take)
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+# vim: set encoding=utf-8
+
+#  Copyright (c) 2016 Intel Corporation 
+#
+#  Licensed 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.
+#
+
+""" test cases for scala scoring engine """
+import unittest
+import os
+from lib import scoring_utils
+from sparktkregtests.lib import sparktk_test
+
+
+class ScalaScoring(sparktk_test.SparkTKTestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        """Import the files to test against."""
+        super(ScalaScoring, self).setUp()
+        self.schema = [("data", float),
+                       ("name", str)]
+        self.train_data = [[2, "ab"], [1, "cd"], [7, "ef"],
+                           [1, "gh"], [9, "ij"], [2, "jk"],
+                           [0, "mn"], [6, "op"], [5, "qr"]]
+        self.test_data = [[0, "ab"], [1, "cd"], [4, "ef"],
+                          [3, "gh"], [4, "ij"], [5, "jk"],
+                          [10, "mn"], [10, "op"], [2, "qr"]]
+        self.frame_train = self.context.frame.create(self.train_data, schema=self.schema)
+        self.frame_test = self.context.frame.create(self.test_data, schema=self.schema)
+        reg_test_root = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
+        self.mar_path = os.path.join(reg_test_root, "datasets") + "/Kmeans.mar"
+        self.model = self.context.models.clustering.kmeans.train(self.frame_train, ["data"], 3, seed=5)
+
+    def test_model_scoring_upload_mar_file_simple(self):
+        """test creating an empty scoring server then upload mar file and score"""
+        expected_res = self.model.predict(self.frame_test)
+
+        files = {"file": open(self.mar_path, 'rb')}
+
+        with scoring_utils.scorer() as scorer:
+            scorer.upload_mar_file(files)
+            self._score_and_compare_expected_actual_result(expected_res, scorer)
+
+    def test_model_scoring_simple(self):
+        """simple model scoring test"""
+        expected_result = self.model.predict(self.frame_test)
+
+        with scoring_utils.scorer(self.mar_path) as scorer:
+            self._score_and_compare_expected_actual_result(expected_result, scorer)
+
+    def test_model_scoring_send_model_bytes(self):
+        """start empty scoring server and test sending model as bytes"""
+        expected_res = self.model.predict(self.frame_test)
+
+        with open(self.mar_path, 'rb') as mar_file:
+            bytes_data = mar_file.read()
+
+        with scoring_utils.scorer() as scorer:
+            scorer.upload_mar_bytes(bytes_data)
+            self._score_and_compare_expected_actual_result(expected_res, scorer)
+
+    @unittest.skip("scoring_engine: sending model twice to scoring engine should provide nice error message")
+    def test_send_model_twice(self):
+        """test to ensure that sending two models fails"""
+        with scoring_utils.scorer(self.mar_path) as scorer:
+            with scorer.upload_mar_file(self.mar_path):
+                response = scorer.score({"data": 2})
+                self.assertTrue("500" in str(response))
+
+    def test_score_no_model(self):
+        """test scoring on a score server started without a model"""
+        with scoring_utils.scorer() as scorer:
+            response = scorer.score({"data": 2})
+            self.assertTrue("500" in str(response))
+
+    def test_score_invalid_data(self):
+        """start a scoring server with valid mar but send invalid data"""
+        with scoring_utils.scorer(self.mar_path) as scorer:
+            response = scorer.score({"data": "apple"})
+            self.assertTrue("500" in str(response))
+
+    def _score_and_compare_expected_actual_result(self, expected, scorer):
+        """compare predict and score result"""
+        # get pandas frame for ease of access from exp res
+        pandas_res = expected.to_pandas()
+        # here we will store the equivalent cluster name
+        # this is because the cluster names may be labeled differently
+        # e.g., predict may call one cluster 0, scoring engine might label it 1
+        # so we will record what the equivalent cluster is
+        # we only care to ensure that the groups are the same, the labels can differ
+        map_cluster_labels = {}
+
+        # iterate through the pandas predict result
+        for (index, row) in pandas_res.iterrows():
+            score_result = scorer.score([dict(zip(["data"], [row["data"]]))])
+            score = score_result.json()["data"][0]["score"]
+
+            # if we have not yet seen this cluster label we add it to our dict
+            # of we have already seen this cluster label then we ensure that the
+            # mapped cluster is the same
+            if row["cluster"] not in map_cluster_labels:
+                map_cluster_labels[row["cluster"]] = score
+            else:
+                self.assertEqual(map_cluster_labels[row["cluster"]], score)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()