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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.
+#
+
+from qpid.parser import ParseError
+
+class ParserBase:
+
+  def lex(self, addr, *types):
+    toks = [t.type for t in self.do_lex(addr) if t.type not in self.EXCLUDE]
+    assert list(types) == toks, "expected %s, got %s" % (types, toks)
+
+  def valid(self, addr, expected):
+    got = self.do_parse(addr)
+    assert expected == got, "expected %s, got %s" % (expected, got)
+
+  def invalid(self, addr, error=None):
+    try:
+      p = self.do_parse(addr)
+      assert False, "invalid address parsed: %s" % p
+    except ParseError, e:
+      assert error == str(e), "expected %r, got %r" % (error, str(e))