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+//
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you 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.
+//
+
+package com.cloud.storage.template;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
+
+import java.io.File;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+
+public class LocalTemplateDownloaderTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void localTemplateDownloaderTest() {
+        String url =  "file://" + new File("pom.xml").getAbsolutePath();
+        TemplateDownloader td = new LocalTemplateDownloader(null, url, "/tmp", TemplateDownloader.DEFAULT_MAX_TEMPLATE_SIZE_IN_BYTES, null);
+        long bytes = td.download(true, null);
+        if (!(bytes > 0)) {
+            fail("Failed download");
+        }
+    }
+
+}