private HCatClient targetMetaStore() throws HCatException {
    return HCatClient.create(new Configuration(replicationTargetHCatConf));
  }
Test for event-based replication scenario

Does not test if replication actually happened, merely tests if we're able to consume a repl task
iter appropriately, calling all the functions expected of the interface, without errors.
hcatalog/webhcat/java-client/src/test/java/org/apache/hive/hcatalog/api/TestHCatClient.java