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+import {
+  AsyncTestCompleter,
+  beforeEach,
+  ddescribe,
+  xdescribe,
+  describe,
+  dispatchEvent,
+  expect,
+  iit,
+  inject,
+  IS_DARTIUM,
+  beforeEachBindings,
+  it,
+  xit,
+  TestComponentBuilder,
+  proxy,
+  SpyObject,
+  By
+} from 'angular2/test_lib';
+
+import {IMPLEMENTS, print} from 'angular2/src/facade/lang';
+
+import {bind, Component, View} from 'angular2/angular2';
+
+import {Location, Router, RouterLink} from 'angular2/router';
+
+import {
+  DOM
+} from 'angular2/src/dom/dom_adapter'
+
+
+    export function
+    main() {
+  describe('router-link directive', function() {
+
+    beforeEachBindings(
+        () =>
+            [bind(Location).toValue(makeDummyLocation()), bind(Router).toValue(makeDummyRouter())]);
+
+
+    it('should update a[href] attribute',
+       inject([TestComponentBuilder, AsyncTestCompleter], (tcb, async) => {
+
+         tcb.createAsync(TestComponent)
+             .then((testComponent) => {
+               testComponent.detectChanges();
+               let anchorElement = testComponent.query(By.css('a')).nativeElement;
+               expect(DOM.getAttribute(anchorElement, 'href')).toEqual('/detail');
+               async.done();
+             });
+       }));
+
+
+    it('should call router.navigate when a link is clicked',
+       inject([TestComponentBuilder, AsyncTestCompleter, Router], (tcb, async, router) => {
+
+         tcb.createAsync(TestComponent)
+             .then((testComponent) => {
+               testComponent.detectChanges();
+               // TODO: shouldn't this be just 'click' rather than '^click'?
+               testComponent.query(By.css('a')).triggerEventHandler('^click', {});
+               expect(router.spy("navigate")).toHaveBeenCalledWith('/detail');
+               async.done();
+             });
+       }));
+  });
+}
+
+
+@Component({selector: 'test-component'})
+@View({
+  template: `
+    <div>
+      <a [router-link]="['/detail']">detail view</a>
+    </div>`,
+  directives: [RouterLink]
+})
+class TestComponent {
+}
+
+
+@proxy
+@IMPLEMENTS(Location)
+class DummyLocation extends SpyObject {
+  noSuchMethod(m) { return super.noSuchMethod(m) }
+}
+
+function makeDummyLocation() {
+  var dl = new DummyLocation();
+  dl.spy('normalizeAbsolutely').andCallFake((url) => url);
+  return dl;
+}
+
+
+@proxy
+@IMPLEMENTS(Router)
+class DummyRouter extends SpyObject {
+  noSuchMethod(m) { return super.noSuchMethod(m) }
+}
+
+function makeDummyRouter() {
+  var dr = new DummyRouter();
+  dr.spy('generate').andCallFake((routeParams) => routeParams.join('='));
+  dr.spy('navigate');
+  return dr;
+}