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+import { getBuildNomadCommand } from "@nomploy/server/utils/builders/nomad";
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+// A realistic compose: a web service (ports, env with a ${VAR}, healthcheck,
+// replicas, resource limits, autoscaling) + a worker. One Dokploy domain targets
+// the web service. We assert the generated Nomad HCL job reflects all of it.
+const composeFile = `
+services:
+  web:
+    image: myregistry/web:latest
+    ports:
+      - "3000"
+    environment:
+      NODE_ENV: production
+      API_URL: \${API_URL}
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "http://localhost:3000/health"]
+      interval: 15s
+      timeout: 5s
+    deploy:
+      replicas: 2
+      resources:
+        limits:
+          cpus: "0.5"
+          memory: 512M
+    x-nomad-scaling:
+      min: 2
+      max: 6
+      cpu_target: 70
+  worker:
+    image: myregistry/worker:latest
+    environment:
+      QUEUE: default
+`;
+
+const compose = {
+	appName: "myapp",
+	serverId: null,
+	composeFile,
+	// Service env resolves a project-level variable via the ${{project.X}} syntax;
+	// the resulting API_URL is then interpolated into the compose YAML's ${API_URL}.
+	env: "API_URL=${{project.API_BASE}}",
+	environment: {
+		project: { env: "API_BASE=https://api.example.com" },
+		env: null,
+	},
+	mounts: [],
+	domains: [
+		{
+			serviceName: "web",
+			port: 3000,
+			host: "app.example.com",
+			https: true,
+			path: "/",
+			uniqueConfigKey: 1,
+			customCertResolver: "letsencrypt",
+		},
+	],
+	// biome-ignore lint/suspicious/noExplicitAny: test mock of NomadComposeNested
+} as any;
+
+describe("nomad builder — compose → HCL (live)", () => {
+	it("translates a compose into a Nomad job spec", async () => {
+		const cmd = await getBuildNomadCommand(compose);
+
+		// getBuildNomadCommand embeds the HCL as base64 in the deploy script.
+		const match = cmd.match(/echo "([A-Za-z0-9+/=]+)" \| base64 -d/);
+		expect(match).not.toBeNull();
+		const hcl = Buffer.from(match![1], "base64").toString("utf8");
+
+		// Print it so the translation is visible when running the test.
+		console.log("\n===== generated Nomad HCL =====\n" + hcl + "\n===============================\n");
+
+		// Job + both task groups
+		expect(hcl).toContain('job "myapp"');
+		expect(hcl).toContain('group "web"');
+		expect(hcl).toContain('group "worker"');
+
+		// Replicas, image, container port
+		expect(hcl).toContain("count = 2");
+		expect(hcl).toContain('image = "myregistry/web:latest"');
+		expect(hcl).toContain("to = 3000");
+
+		// ${API_URL} resolved from project env; static env kept
+		expect(hcl).toContain("https://api.example.com");
+		expect(hcl).toContain('NODE_ENV = "production"');
+
+		// Resource limits translated (0.5 CPU -> 500 MHz, 512M -> 512 MB)
+		expect(hcl).toContain("cpu    = 500");
+		expect(hcl).toContain("memory = 512");
+
+		// Autoscaling block from x-nomad-scaling
+		expect(hcl).toContain("scaling {");
+		expect(hcl).toContain("max     = 6");
+		expect(hcl).toContain("target = 70");
+
+		// Traefik-via-Consul routing for the domain (HTTP + HTTPS + TLS resolver)
+		expect(hcl).toContain('provider = "consul"');
+		expect(hcl).toContain("traefik.enable=true");
+		expect(hcl).toContain("Host(`app.example.com`)");
+		expect(hcl).toContain("entrypoints=websecure");
+		expect(hcl).toContain("tls.certresolver=letsencrypt");
+
+		// HTTP health check derived from the compose healthcheck
+		expect(hcl).toContain('type     = "http"');
+		expect(hcl).toContain('path     = "/health"');
+	});
+});