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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# Copyright(C) 2010  Romain Bignon
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+
+
+from logging import debug
+from weboob.tools.test import BackendTest
+
+class FourChanTest(BackendTest):
+    BACKEND = 'fourchan'
+
+    def test_new_messages(self):
+        tot = 0
+        for thread in self.backend.iter_threads():
+            thread = self.backend.fillobj(thread, 'root')
+            count = 0
+            for m in thread.iter_all_messages():
+                count += 1
+            debug('Count: %s' % count)
+            tot += count
+
+        print 'Total messages: %s' % tot
+
+        count = 0
+        for message in self.backend.iter_unread_messages():
+            count += 1
+
+        print 'Unread messages: %s' % count