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+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+from json import loads
+import os
+
+from django.conf import settings
+from django.contrib.auth.models import User
+from django.core.files.base import File
+from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
+from django.test.client import Client
+from django.test import TestCase
+
+from rest_framework import status
+from rest_framework.test import APIClient
+
+from documents.models import Document, DocumentType
+from documents.tests import (TEST_SMALL_DOCUMENT_PATH, TEST_DOCUMENT_DESCRIPTION,
+                             TEST_DOCUMENT_TYPE)
+from metadata.models import (MetadataType, DocumentMetadata,
+                             DocumentTypeMetadataType)
+from .models import Index, IndexInstanceNode, IndexTemplateNode
+
+
+class IndexTestCase(TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.document_type = DocumentType.objects.create(name=TEST_DOCUMENT_DESCRIPTION)
+
+        with open(TEST_SMALL_DOCUMENT_PATH) as file_object:
+            self.document = Document.objects.new_document(file_object=File(file_object), document_type=self.document_type)[0].document
+
+    def test_indexing(self):
+        metadata_type = MetadataType.objects.create(name='test', title='test')
+        DocumentTypeMetadataType.objects.create(document_type=self.document_type, metadata_type=metadata_type)
+
+        # Create empty index
+        index = Index.objects.create(name='test', title='test')
+        self.failUnlessEqual(list(Index.objects.all()), [index])
+
+        # Add our document type to the new index
+        index.document_types.add(self.document_type)
+        self.failUnlessEqual(list(index.document_types.all()), [self.document_type])
+
+        # Create simple index template
+        root = index.template_root
+        index.node_templates.create(parent=root, expression='document.metadata_value_of.test', link_documents=True)
+        self.failUnlessEqual(list(IndexTemplateNode.objects.values_list('expression', flat=True)), [u'', u'document.metadata_value_of.test'])
+
+        # Add document metadata value to trigger index node instance creation
+        self.document.metadata.create(metadata_type=metadata_type, value='0001')
+        self.failUnlessEqual(list(IndexInstanceNode.objects.values_list('value', flat=True)), [u'', u'0001'])