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+# helix-bigdata-test
+This is the source code that was used to generate the binary thrift files. Feel free to use that as library in the test result.
+Should you have hadoop installed you can find the generated files in
+```bash
+helix-bigdata-test/src/test/hadoop/candidates.tar.gz