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+package de.gwdg.metadataqa.marc.cli.utils;
+
+import de.gwdg.metadataqa.marc.definition.MarcFormat;
+import de.gwdg.metadataqa.marc.utils.ReadMarc;
+import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.marc4j.MarcReader;
+import org.marc4j.marc.Record;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+public class RecordIteratorTest {
+
+  @Test
+  public void gzipSingle() throws IOException {
+    File file = new File("src/test/resources/gzip/test.xml.gz");
+    try (InputStream stream = new GZIPInputStream(new FileInputStream(file))) {
+      MarcReader reader = ReadMarc.getStreamReader(MarcFormat.XML, stream);
+      Record record = reader.next();
+      assertNotNull(record);
+      assertEquals("990037818200205131", record.getControlNumber());
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+      e.printStackTrace();
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void gzipIteration() throws IOException {
+    File file = new File("src/test/resources/gzip/test.xml.gz");
+    try (InputStream stream = new GZIPInputStream(new FileInputStream(file))) {
+      MarcReader reader = ReadMarc.getStreamReader(MarcFormat.XML, stream);
+      int i = 0;
+      List ids = new ArrayList();
+      while (reader.hasNext()) {
+        Record record = reader.next();
+        assertNotNull(record);
+        i++;
+        ids.add(record.getControlNumber());
+      }
+      assertEquals(10, i);
+      assertEquals("990037818200205131,990037818190205131,990037818130205131," +
+        "990037818090205131,990037788010205131,990037556380205131,990037476810205131," +
+        "990037475780205131,990037471340205131,990037347160205131", StringUtils.join(ids, ","));
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+      e.printStackTrace();
+    }
+  }
+}
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