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+# Copyright (C) 2015  The Software Heritage developers
+# See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
+# License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
+# See top-level LICENSE file for more information
+
+import shutil
+import tempfile
+import unittest
+
+from nose.tools import istest
+from nose.plugins.attrib import attr
+
+from .db_testing import DbTestFixture
+from swh.storage import Storage
+
+
+@attr('db')
+class TestStorage(DbTestFixture, unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        super().setUp()
+        self.objroot = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+        self.storage = Storage(self.conn, self.objroot)
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        shutil.rmtree(self.objroot)
+        super().tearDown()
+
+    @istest
+    def add_content(self):
+        cont = {
+            'data': b'42\n',
+            'sha1': '34973274ccef6ab4dfaaf86599792fa9c3fe4689',
+            'sha1_git': 'd81cc0710eb6cf9efd5b920a8453e1e07157b6cd',
+            'sha256': '673650f936cb3b0a2f93ce09d81be10748b1b203c19e8176b4eefc1964a0cf3a'  # NOQA
+        }
+        self.storage.add_content([cont])
+        self.assertIn(cont['sha1'], self.storage.objstorage)
+        self.cursor.execute('SELECT sha1 FROM content WHERE sha1 = %s',
+                            (cont['sha1'],))
+        self.assertEqual(self.cursor.fetchone(), (cont['sha1'],))