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+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+import mock
+from oslo_utils.fixture import uuidsentinel as uuids
+
+from nova.api.openstack.compute import server_external_events as ev
+from nova.policies import server_external_events as policies
+from nova.tests.unit.api.openstack import fakes
+from nova.tests.unit.policies import base
+
+
+class ServerExternalEventsPolicyTest(base.BasePolicyTest):
+    """Test Server External Events APIs policies with all possible context.
+
+    This class defines the set of context with different roles
+    which are allowed and not allowed to pass the policy checks.
+    With those set of context, it will call the API operation and
+    verify the expected behaviour.
+    """
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        super(ServerExternalEventsPolicyTest, self).setUp()
+        self.controller = ev.ServerExternalEventsController()
+        self.req = fakes.HTTPRequest.blank('')
+
+        # Check that admin is able to create the server external events.
+        self.admin_authorized_contexts = [
+            self.legacy_admin_context, self.system_admin_context,
+            self.project_admin_context
+        ]
+        # Check that non-admin is not able to create the server
+        # external events.
+        self.admin_unauthorized_contexts = [
+            self.system_member_context, self.system_reader_context,
+            self.system_foo_context, self.project_member_context,
+            self.project_reader_context, self.project_foo_context,
+            self.other_project_member_context
+        ]
+
+    @mock.patch('nova.compute.api.API.external_instance_event')
+    @mock.patch('nova.objects.InstanceMappingList.get_by_instance_uuids')
+    @mock.patch('nova.objects.InstanceList.get_by_filters')
+    def test_server_external_events_policy(self, mock_event, mock_get,
+                                           mock_filter):
+        rule_name = policies.POLICY_ROOT % 'create'
+        body = {'events': [{'name': 'network-vif-plugged',
+                           'server_uuid': uuids.fake_id,
+                           'status': 'completed'}]
+               }
+        self.common_policy_check(self.admin_authorized_contexts,
+                                 self.admin_unauthorized_contexts,
+                                 rule_name, self.controller.create,
+                                 self.req, body=body)
+
+
+class ServerExternalEventsScopeTypePolicyTest(ServerExternalEventsPolicyTest):
+    """Test Server External Events APIs policies with system scope enabled.
+
+    This class set the nova.conf [oslo_policy] enforce_scope to True
+    so that we can switch on the scope checking on oslo policy side.
+    It defines the set of context with scoped token
+    which are allowed and not allowed to pass the policy checks.
+    With those set of context, it will run the API operation and
+    verify the expected behaviour.
+    """
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        super(ServerExternalEventsScopeTypePolicyTest, self).setUp()
+        self.flags(enforce_scope=True, group="oslo_policy")