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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+
+# Copyright (C) 2013 Intel Corporation
+#
+# Released under the MIT license (see COPYING.MIT)
+
+# This script should be used outside of the build system to run image tests.
+# It needs a json file as input as exported by the build.
+# E.g for an already built image:
+#- export the tests:
+#   TEST_EXPORT_ONLY = "1"
+#   TEST_TARGET  = "simpleremote"
+#   TEST_TARGET_IP = "192.168.7.2"
+#   TEST_SERVER_IP = "192.168.7.1"
+# bitbake core-image-sato -c testimage
+# Setup your target, e.g for qemu: runqemu core-image-sato
+# cd build/tmp/testimage/core-image-sato
+# ./runexported.py testdata.json
+
+import sys
+import os
+import time
+from optparse import OptionParser
+
+try:
+    import simplejson as json
+except ImportError:
+    import json
+
+sys.path.append(os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "oeqa")))
+
+from oeqa.oetest import runTests
+from oeqa.utils.sshcontrol import SSHControl
+from oeqa.utils.dump import get_host_dumper
+
+# this isn't pretty but we need a fake target object
+# for running the tests externally as we don't care
+# about deploy/start we only care about the connection methods (run, copy)
+class FakeTarget(object):
+    def __init__(self, d):
+        self.connection = None
+        self.ip = None
+        self.server_ip = None
+        self.datetime = time.strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M%S',time.gmtime())
+        self.testdir = d.getVar("TEST_LOG_DIR", True)
+        self.pn = d.getVar("PN", True)
+
+    def exportStart(self):
+        self.sshlog = os.path.join(self.testdir, "ssh_target_log.%s" % self.datetime)
+        sshloglink = os.path.join(self.testdir, "ssh_target_log")
+        if os.path.islink(sshloglink):
+            os.unlink(sshloglink)
+        os.symlink(self.sshlog, sshloglink)
+        print("SSH log file: %s" %  self.sshlog)
+        self.connection = SSHControl(self.ip, logfile=self.sshlog)
+
+    def run(self, cmd, timeout=None):
+        return self.connection.run(cmd, timeout)
+
+    def copy_to(self, localpath, remotepath):
+        return self.connection.copy_to(localpath, remotepath)
+
+    def copy_from(self, remotepath, localpath):
+        return self.connection.copy_from(remotepath, localpath)
+
+
+class MyDataDict(dict):
+    def getVar(self, key, unused = None):
+        return self.get(key, "")
+
+class TestContext(object):
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.d = None
+        self.target = None
+
+def main():
+
+    usage = "usage: %prog [options] <json file>"
+    parser = OptionParser(usage=usage)
+    parser.add_option("-t", "--target-ip", dest="ip", help="The IP address of the target machine. Use this to \
+            overwrite the value determined from TEST_TARGET_IP at build time")
+    parser.add_option("-s", "--server-ip", dest="server_ip", help="The IP address of this machine. Use this to \
+            overwrite the value determined from TEST_SERVER_IP at build time.")
+    parser.add_option("-d", "--deploy-dir", dest="deploy_dir", help="Full path to the package feeds, that this \
+            the contents of what used to be DEPLOY_DIR on the build machine. If not specified it will use the value \
+            specified in the json if that directory actually exists or it will error out.")
+    parser.add_option("-l", "--log-dir", dest="log_dir", help="This sets the path for TEST_LOG_DIR. If not specified \
+            the current dir is used. This is used for usually creating a ssh log file and a scp test file.")
+
+    (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
+    if len(args) != 1:
+        parser.error("Incorrect number of arguments. The one and only argument should be a json file exported by the build system")
+
+    with open(args[0], "r") as f:
+        loaded = json.load(f)
+
+    if options.ip:
+        loaded["target"]["ip"] = options.ip
+    if options.server_ip:
+        loaded["target"]["server_ip"] = options.server_ip
+
+    d = MyDataDict()
+    for key in loaded["d"].keys():
+        d[key] = loaded["d"][key]
+
+    if options.log_dir:
+        d["TEST_LOG_DIR"] = options.log_dir
+    else:
+        d["TEST_LOG_DIR"] = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+    if options.deploy_dir:
+        d["DEPLOY_DIR"] = options.deploy_dir
+    else:
+        if not os.path.isdir(d["DEPLOY_DIR"]):
+            raise Exception("The path to DEPLOY_DIR does not exists: %s" % d["DEPLOY_DIR"])
+
+
+    target = FakeTarget(d)
+    for key in loaded["target"].keys():
+        setattr(target, key, loaded["target"][key])
+
+    host_dumper = get_host_dumper(d)
+    host_dumper.parent_dir = loaded["host_dumper"]["parent_dir"]
+    host_dumper.cmds = loaded["host_dumper"]["cmds"]
+
+    tc = TestContext()
+    setattr(tc, "d", d)
+    setattr(tc, "target", target)
+    setattr(tc, "host_dumper", host_dumper)
+    for key in loaded.keys():
+        if key != "d" and key != "target" and key != "host_dumper":
+            setattr(tc, key, loaded[key])
+
+    target.exportStart()
+    runTests(tc)
+
+    return 0
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    try:
+        ret = main()
+    except Exception:
+        ret = 1
+        import traceback
+        traceback.print_exc(5)
+    sys.exit(ret)