private void verifyLocationHints(Path inputSplitsDir,
                                 List<TaskLocationHint> actual) throws Exception {
  JobID jobId = new JobID("dummy", 1);
  JobSplit.TaskSplitMetaInfo[] splitsInfo =
      SplitMetaInfoReader.readSplitMetaInfo(jobId, remoteFs,
          conf, inputSplitsDir);
  int splitsCount = splitsInfo.length;
  List<TaskLocationHint> locationHints =
      new ArrayList<TaskLocationHint>(splitsCount);
  for (int i = 0; i < splitsCount; ++i) {
    locationHints.add(
        TaskLocationHint.createTaskLocationHint(new HashSet<String>(
            Arrays.asList(splitsInfo[i].getLocations())), null)
    );
  }

  Assert.assertEquals(locationHints, actual);
}