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+/*
+ * DavMail POP/IMAP/SMTP/CalDav/LDAP Exchange Gateway
+ * Copyright (C) 2009  Mickael Guessant
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+ * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.
+ */
+package davmail.exchange;
+
+import junit.framework.TestCase;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import davmail.Settings;
+import davmail.http.DavGatewaySSLProtocolSocketFactory;
+
+/**
+ * Exchange session test case.
+ * Open a session to default DavMail server as found in user davmail.properties,
+ * except if url is not null
+ */
+public class AbstractExchangeSessionTestCase extends TestCase {
+    protected static String url;
+    protected static String certificateHash;
+    protected static String username;
+    protected static String password;
+    protected static ExchangeSession session;
+
+    @Override
+    public void setUp() throws IOException {
+        if (session == null) {
+            // Load current user settings
+            if (url == null) {
+                Settings.load();
+            } else {
+                Settings.setDefaultSettings();
+                Settings.setProperty("davmail.url", url);
+                Settings.setProperty("davmail.server.certificate.hash", certificateHash);
+                Settings.setProperty("davmail.username", username);
+                Settings.setProperty("davmail.password", password);
+            }
+            DavGatewaySSLProtocolSocketFactory.register();
+            // force server mode
+            Settings.setProperty("davmail.server", "true");
+            // enable WIRE debug log
+            //Settings.setLoggingLevel("httpclient.wire", Level.DEBUG);
+
+            // open session, get username and password from davmail.properties
+            // Note: those properties should *not* exist in normal production mode,
+            // they are not used by DavMail, just by this test case
+            session = new ExchangeSession(Settings.getProperty("davmail.url"), Settings.getProperty("davmail.username"), Settings.getProperty("davmail.password"));
+        }
+    }
+
+
+}