Add test case for loading mappings from properties
diff --git a/gora-hbase/src/main/java/org/apache/gora/hbase/store/HBaseMapping.java b/gora-hbase/src/main/java/org/apache/gora/hbase/store/HBaseMapping.java
index 9756ef3..b1b3bd9 100644
--- a/gora-hbase/src/main/java/org/apache/gora/hbase/store/HBaseMapping.java
+++ b/gora-hbase/src/main/java/org/apache/gora/hbase/store/HBaseMapping.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Map.Entry;
+import java.util.Objects;
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ColumnFamilyDescriptor;
@@ -199,5 +200,18 @@
     }
     return strBuilder.toString() ;
   }
-  
+
+  @Override
+  public boolean equals(Object o) {
+    if (this == o) return true;
+    if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) return false;
+    HBaseMapping that = (HBaseMapping) o;
+    return Objects.equals(tableDescriptor, that.tableDescriptor) &&
+            Objects.equals(columnMap, that.columnMap);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public int hashCode() {
+    return Objects.hash(tableDescriptor, columnMap);
+  }
 }
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diff --git a/gora-hbase/src/main/java/org/apache/gora/hbase/store/HBaseStore.java b/gora-hbase/src/main/java/org/apache/gora/hbase/store/HBaseStore.java
index 160334c..dfed882 100644
--- a/gora-hbase/src/main/java/org/apache/gora/hbase/store/HBaseStore.java
+++ b/gora-hbase/src/main/java/org/apache/gora/hbase/store/HBaseStore.java
@@ -828,7 +828,7 @@
   }
 
   @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
-  private HBaseMapping readMapping(InputStream mappingStream) throws IOException {
+  public HBaseMapping readMapping(InputStream mappingStream) throws IOException {
 
     HBaseMappingBuilder mappingBuilder = new HBaseMappingBuilder();
 
diff --git a/gora-hbase/src/test/java/org/apache/gora/hbase/store/TestHBaseStoreMappingFromProperties.java b/gora-hbase/src/test/java/org/apache/gora/hbase/store/TestHBaseStoreMappingFromProperties.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..40525f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gora-hbase/src/test/java/org/apache/gora/hbase/store/TestHBaseStoreMappingFromProperties.java
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
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+ */
+
+package org.apache.gora.hbase.store;
+
+import junit.framework.Assert;
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
+import org.apache.gora.examples.generated.Employee;
+import org.apache.gora.hbase.util.HBaseClusterSingleton;
+import org.apache.gora.store.DataStoreFactory;
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseConfiguration;
+import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.util.Properties;
+
+/**
+ * Test case for loading mappings from properties
+ */
+public class TestHBaseStoreMappingFromProperties {
+    private HBaseClusterSingleton cluster;
+
+    @Before
+    public void setUp() {
+        // Cluster for HBaseStore
+        cluster = HBaseClusterSingleton.build(1);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testInitialize() throws IOException {
+        // Simple mapping XML
+        String mappingXml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n" +
+                "<gora-otd>\n" +
+                "\n" +
+                "  <table name=\"Employee\">\n" +
+                "    <family name=\"info\"/>\n" +
+                "  </table>\n" +
+                "    <class name=\"org.apache.gora.examples.generated.Employee\" keyClass=\"java.lang.String\" table=\"Employee\">\n" +
+                "    <field name=\"name\" family=\"info\" qualifier=\"nm\"/>\n" +
+                "    </class>\n" +
+                "</gora-otd>";
+
+        Configuration conf = HBaseConfiguration.create(cluster.getHbaseTestingUtil().getConfiguration());
+        Properties prop = DataStoreFactory.createProps();
+
+        // Set mapping XML property
+        prop.setProperty(HBaseStore.XML_MAPPING_DEFINITION, mappingXml);
+        HBaseStore<String, Employee> hBaseStore =
+                DataStoreFactory.createDataStore(HBaseStore.class, String.class, Employee.class, conf, prop);
+        HBaseMapping actualMapping = hBaseStore.getMapping();
+
+        // Read mapping definition from mappingXml
+        HBaseMapping expectedMapping = hBaseStore.readMapping(IOUtils.toInputStream(mappingXml, (Charset) null));
+
+        Assert.assertEquals(expectedMapping, actualMapping);
+    }
+
+    @After
+    public void tearDown() throws IOException {
+        cluster.shutdownMiniCluster();
+    }
+}
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