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+"""Unit tests for tiktoken_tokenizer — no server, no model loading."""
+
+import unittest
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
+
+from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cpu_ci
+from sglang.test.test_utils import CustomTestCase
+
+register_cpu_ci(est_time=1, suite="stage-a-test-cpu")
+
+from sglang.srt.tokenizer.tiktoken_tokenizer import (
+    CONTROL_TOKEN_TEXTS,
+    DEFAULT_CONTROL_TOKENS,
+    DEFAULT_SPECIAL_TOKENS,
+    EOS,
+    PAD,
+    RESERVED_TOKEN_TEXTS,
+    SEP,
+    TiktokenProcessor,
+    TiktokenTokenizer,
+)
+
+
+class TestConstants(CustomTestCase):
+    def test_reserved_token_count(self):
+        self.assertEqual(len(RESERVED_TOKEN_TEXTS), 125)
+
+    def test_reserved_token_format(self):
+        self.assertEqual(RESERVED_TOKEN_TEXTS[0], "<|reserved_3|>")
+        self.assertEqual(RESERVED_TOKEN_TEXTS[-1], "<|reserved_127|>")
+
+    def test_control_token_count(self):
+        self.assertEqual(len(CONTROL_TOKEN_TEXTS), 704)
+
+    def test_control_token_format(self):
+        self.assertEqual(CONTROL_TOKEN_TEXTS[0], "<|control1|>")
+        self.assertEqual(CONTROL_TOKEN_TEXTS[-1], "<|control704|>")
+
+    def test_special_token_values(self):
+        self.assertEqual(PAD, "<|pad|>")
+        self.assertEqual(EOS, "<|eos|>")
+        self.assertEqual(SEP, "<|separator|>")
+
+    def test_default_special_tokens_contains_all(self):
+        self.assertIn(PAD, DEFAULT_SPECIAL_TOKENS)
+        self.assertIn(EOS, DEFAULT_SPECIAL_TOKENS)
+        self.assertIn(SEP, DEFAULT_SPECIAL_TOKENS)
+
+    def test_default_control_tokens_values(self):
+        # Note: "sep" maps to EOS and "eos" maps to SEP in the source code
+        self.assertEqual(DEFAULT_CONTROL_TOKENS["pad"], PAD)
+        self.assertEqual(DEFAULT_CONTROL_TOKENS["sep"], EOS)
+        self.assertEqual(DEFAULT_CONTROL_TOKENS["eos"], SEP)
+
+
+class TestTiktokenProcessor(CustomTestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        tokenizer_patcher = patch(
+            "sglang.srt.tokenizer.tiktoken_tokenizer.TiktokenTokenizer"
+        )
+        tokenizer_patcher.start()
+        self.addCleanup(tokenizer_patcher.stop)
+        self.processor = TiktokenProcessor(name="dummy")
+
+    def test_image_processor_returns_dict(self):
+        result = self.processor.image_processor("fake_image")
+        self.assertIsInstance(result, dict)
+
+    def test_image_processor_has_pixel_values_key(self):
+        result = self.processor.image_processor("fake_image")
+        self.assertIn("pixel_values", result)
+
+    def test_image_processor_wraps_image_in_list(self):
+        image = "fake_image_data"
+        result = self.processor.image_processor(image)
+        self.assertEqual(result["pixel_values"], [image])
+
+    def test_image_processor_with_none(self):
+        result = self.processor.image_processor(None)
+        self.assertEqual(result["pixel_values"], [None])
+
+
+class TestTiktokenTokenizer(CustomTestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        from jinja2 import Template
+
+        self.tok = TiktokenTokenizer.__new__(TiktokenTokenizer)
+        self.mock_tokenizer = MagicMock()
+        self.tok.tokenizer = self.mock_tokenizer
+        self.tok.chat_template = "dummy"
+        self.tok.chat_template_jinja = Template(
+            "{% for message in messages %}"
+            "{{ message['role'] }}: {{ message['content'] }}"
+            "{% endfor %}"
+            "{% if add_generation_prompt %}assistant:{% endif %}"
+        )
+
+    def test_encode_delegates_to_tokenizer(self):
+        self.mock_tokenizer.encode.return_value = [1, 2, 3]
+        result = self.tok.encode("hello")
+        self.mock_tokenizer.encode.assert_called_once_with("hello")
+        self.assertEqual(result, [1, 2, 3])
+
+    def test_decode_delegates_to_tokenizer(self):
+        self.mock_tokenizer.decode.return_value = "hello"
+        result = self.tok.decode([1, 2, 3])
+        self.mock_tokenizer.decode.assert_called_once_with([1, 2, 3])
+        self.assertEqual(result, "hello")
+
+    def test_batch_decode_list_of_lists(self):
+        self.mock_tokenizer.decode_batch.return_value = ["hello", "world"]
+        result = self.tok.batch_decode([[1, 2], [3, 4]])
+        self.mock_tokenizer.decode_batch.assert_called_once_with([[1, 2], [3, 4]])
+        self.assertEqual(result, ["hello", "world"])
+
+    def test_batch_decode_flat_list_wraps_each(self):
+        self.mock_tokenizer.decode_batch.return_value = ["a", "b"]
+        self.tok.batch_decode([1, 2])
+        self.mock_tokenizer.decode_batch.assert_called_once_with([[1], [2]])
+
+    def test_call_returns_input_ids(self):
+        self.mock_tokenizer.encode.return_value = [1, 2, 3]
+        result = self.tok(["hello", "world"])
+        self.assertIn("input_ids", result)
+        self.assertEqual(len(result["input_ids"]), 2)
+
+    def test_apply_chat_template_no_tokenize(self):
+        messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "hello"}]
+        result = self.tok.apply_chat_template(
+            messages=messages,
+            tokenize=False,
+            add_generation_prompt=False,
+        )
+        self.assertIsInstance(result, str)
+        self.assertIn("hello", result)
+
+    def test_apply_chat_template_with_tokenize(self):
+        self.mock_tokenizer.encode.return_value = [1, 2, 3]
+        messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "hello"}]
+        result = self.tok.apply_chat_template(
+            messages=messages,
+            tokenize=True,
+            add_generation_prompt=False,
+        )
+        self.assertIsInstance(result, list)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()