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+// Copyright 2018 Google LLC
+//
+// 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
+//
+//     https://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.
+
+'use strict';
+
+describe('ImageAnnotatorSmokeTest', () => {
+  it('successfully makes a call to the service', done => {
+    const vision = require('../src');
+
+    var client = new vision.v1p2beta1.ImageAnnotatorClient({
+      // optional auth parameters.
+    });
+
+    var gcsImageUri = 'gs://gapic-toolkit/President_Barack_Obama.jpg';
+    var source = {
+      gcsImageUri: gcsImageUri,
+    };
+    var image = {
+      source: source,
+    };
+    var type = 'FACE_DETECTION';
+    var featuresElement = {
+      type: type,
+    };
+    var features = [featuresElement];
+    var requestsElement = {
+      image: image,
+      features: features,
+    };
+    var requests = [requestsElement];
+    client.batchAnnotateImages({requests: requests})
+      .then(responses => {
+        var response = responses[0];
+        console.log(response);
+      })
+      .then(done)
+      .catch(done);
+  });
+});