I come across a situation where I need to put a code block that is needed only for unit tests or QA, and it must not be present for production. This must be implemented so that the code is maintainable and readable. I am thinking about this and below is one approach, but I need help to finalize it...
Develop the class ServiceClient which needs to invoke a REST Service with SSL. The service needs to initiate SSLContext and on the UAT environment, we need to add this code block to be executed only in the test environment:
package com.uat.environment;
public class ServiceClient extends com.prod.environment.ServiceClient {
...
...
static {
//for localhost testing only
javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(newJavaKeyword javax.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier() {
public boolean verify(String hostname, javax.net.ssl.SSLSession sslSession) {
if (hostname.equals("localhost")) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
});
}
...
...
}
Note: replace the keyword above newJavaKeyword with new as it won't let me post it using new for some reason.
The above code block will disable matching the hostname for localhost with the self-signed certificate owner/issuer CN=Tom Akehurst for WireMock.
The correct version of the class ServiceClient intended for the production environment will be developed in the package com.prod.environment as follows without the static code block above:
package com.prod.environment;
public class ServiceClient {
...
...
public void ServiceClient() {
...
...
}
...
...
}
Then, will ensure to configure maven pom.xml to generate two jar files service_uat.jar and service_prod.jar. That is, one will have the UAT package, and the other will have the production package. When running the program using java.exe' I want to configure the classpathso that if the UAT jar file is present in the classpath, then when the client code references the class nameServiceClassit will pick the UAT version. And, if I don't add the UAT jar and only add the prod jar to the classpath, then the client code will pick theServiceClass` from the prod package.
The client code will be something like the following:
import com.prod.environment.ServiceClass;
import com.uat.environment.ServiceClass;
public static void main() {
...
ServiceClass service = new ServiceClass();
...
}
What I want to happen is that if the UAT jar is present, it should pick the UAT version, if not, it will pick the prod version.
I am not sure how to achieve this objective... I think the compiler will report an error if I try to import the same class name from two different packages.
What is the appropriate way to achieve this?
Update:
I am thinking about this ... maybe we can introduce a factory class called ServiceClientFactory. This class will be responsible for referencing/creating the correct version of the ServiceClient class and triggering the static block. The ServiceClientFactory will check if the package com.uat.environment is present and then reference the class using com.uat.environment.ServiceClient, if not present then reference the prod version com.prod.environment.ServiceClient.
I am nor sure how to do that and appreciate your help.
