BAEL-1267: programmatically create, configure and run a tomcat server

libraries/src/test/java/com/baeldung/tomcat/ProgrammaticTomcatTest.java

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+package com.baeldung.tomcat;
+
+import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
+import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
+import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
+import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
+import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner;
+
+
+import static junit.framework.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
+
+/**
+ * Created by adi on 1/14/18.
+ */
+@RunWith(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
+public class ProgrammaticTomcatTest {
+
+    private ProgrammaticTomcat tomcat = new ProgrammaticTomcat();
+
+    @Before
+    public void setUp() throws Exception {
+        tomcat.startTomcat();
+    }
+
+    @After
+    public void tearDown() throws Exception {
+        tomcat.stopTomcat();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenTomcatStarted_whenAccessServlet_responseIsTestAndResponseHeaderIsSet() throws Exception {
+        CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClientBuilder
+          .create()
+          .build();
+        HttpGet getServlet = new HttpGet("http://localhost:8080/my-servlet");
+
+        HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(getServlet);
+        assertEquals(HttpStatus.SC_OK, response
+          .getStatusLine()
+          .getStatusCode());
+
+        String myHeaderValue = response
+          .getFirstHeader("myHeader")
+          .getValue();
+        assertEquals("myHeaderValue", myHeaderValue);
+
+        HttpEntity responseEntity = response.getEntity();
+        assertNotNull(responseEntity);
+
+        String responseString = EntityUtils.toString(responseEntity, "UTF-8");
+        assertEquals("test", responseString);
+    }
+
+}