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+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright (c) 2014--, The Qiita Development Team.
+#
+# Distributed under the terms of the BSD 3-clause License.
+#
+# The full license is in the file LICENSE, distributed with this software.
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+from unittest import main
+from requests import Request
+from six import StringIO
+from time import sleep
+
+from qiita_pet.test.tornado_test_base import TestHandlerBase
+
+
+class TestStudyUploadFileHandler(TestHandlerBase):
+    def test_get_exists(self):
+        response = self.get('/study/upload/1')
+        self.assertEqual(response.code, 200)
+
+    def test_get_no_exists(self):
+        response = self.get('/study/upload/245')
+        self.assertEqual(response.code, 404)
+
+
+class TestUploadFileHandler(TestHandlerBase):
+    def test_get(self):
+        response = self.get('/upload/')
+        self.assertEqual(response.code, 400)
+
+
+class TestStudyUploadViaRemote(TestHandlerBase):
+    def _setup_request(self, data):
+        # setting up things to test by sending POST variables and a file
+        # taken from: https://bit.ly/2CpZiZn
+        prepare = Request(
+            url='https://localhost/',
+            files={'ssh-key': StringIO('Test key.')}, data=data).prepare()
+        headers = {"Content-Type": prepare.headers.get('Content-Type')}
+        body = prepare.body
+
+        return headers, body
+
+    def test_post(self):
+        data = {'remote-request-type': 'list', 'inputURL': 'scp-url'}
+        headers, body = self._setup_request(data)
+
+        # study doesn't exist
+        response = self.post(
+            '/study/upload/remote/100', data=body, headers=headers)
+        self.assertEqual(response.code, 404)
+
+        # create a successful list job
+        response = self.post(
+            '/study/upload/remote/1', data=body, headers=headers)
+        self.assertEqual(response.code, 200)
+        self.assertEqual(response.body.decode('ascii'),
+                         '{"status": "success", "message": ""}')
+
+        # create a successful list job
+        data = {'remote-request-type': 'transfer', 'inputURL': 'scp-url'}
+        headers, body = self._setup_request(data)
+        response = self.post(
+            '/study/upload/remote/1', data=body, headers=headers)
+        self.assertEqual(response.code, 200)
+        self.assertEqual(response.body.decode('ascii'),
+                         '{"status": "success", "message": ""}')
+        # sleep to wait for jobs to finish, no need to check for it's status
+        sleep(5)
+
+        # jobs with bad Parameters
+        data = {'remote-request-type': 'error', 'inputURL': 'scp-url'}
+        headers, body = self._setup_request(data)
+        response = self.post(
+            '/study/upload/remote/1', data=body, headers=headers)
+        self.assertEqual(response.code, 200)
+        self.assertEqual(response.body.decode('ascii'), '{"status": "error", '
+                         '"message": "Not a valid method"}')
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()