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+package org.json.junit;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+import java.io.*;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;
+import org.json.JSONObject;
+import org.json.JSONArray;
+import org.json.CDL;
+
+/**
+ * Tests for {@link CDL}.
+ * CDL provides an application level API, it is not actually used by the
+ * reference app. To test it, strings will be converted to JSON-Java classes
+ * and then converted back. But each row will be an unordered JSONObject,
+ * so can't use a simple string compare.
+ * @author JSON.org
+ * @version 2015-03-16
+ * 
+ */
+public class CDLTest {
+
+    /**
+     * Compares a JSON array to the original string. The top row of the
+     * string contains the JSONObject keys and the remaining rows contain
+     * the values. The JSONObject rows are unordered and may differ between
+     * rows. 
+     * @param jsonArray the JSONArray which was created from the string
+     * @param str the string which was used to create the JSONArray
+     * @return true if equal, otherwise false
+     */
+    public boolean compareJSONArrayToString(JSONArray jsonArray, String str) {
+        boolean result = true;
+        int rows = jsonArray.length();
+        StringReader sr = new StringReader(str);
+        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(sr);
+        try {
+            String columnNames = reader.readLine();
+            String[] keys = columnNames.split(",");
+            for (int i = 0; i < rows; ++i) {
+                String row = reader.readLine();
+                String[] values = row.split(",");
+                JSONObject jsonObject = jsonArray.getJSONObject(i);
+                if (keys.length != jsonObject.length()) {
+                    break;
+                }
+                int colIndex = 0;
+                for (String key: keys) {
+                    
+                    Object obj = jsonObject.get(key);
+                    
+                }
+            }
+        } catch (IOException ignore) {}
+        return result;
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void shouldConvertCDLToJSONArray() {
+        /**
+         * simple array where the first row of the string consists of the
+         * column names and there are 2 value rows
+         */
+        String lines = new String(
+                "Col 1, Col 2, Col 3, Col 4, Col 5, Col 6, Col 7\n" +
+                "val1, val2, val3, val4, val5, val6, val7\n" +
+                "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7\n");
+        JSONArray jsonArray = CDL.toJSONArray(lines);
+        assertTrue("CDL should convert string to JSONArray correctly",
+                compareJSONArrayToString(jsonArray, lines));
+    }
+
+}
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