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+/*
+ * Copyright © 2016-2017 European Support Limited
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+const { setWorldConstructor } = require('cucumber');
+const _ = require('lodash');
+const findUp = require('find-up');
+
+
+
+let configPath = findUp.sync('config.json');
+configPath = configPath.replace(/\\/g, '/');
+
+let config = require(configPath);
+let localConfig = {};
+try {
+	let devConfigPath = findUp.sync('devConfig.json');
+	devConfigPath = devConfigPath.replace(/\\/g, '/');
+	localConfig = require(devConfigPath);
+} catch (e) {
+	try {
+		let envdir = findUp.sync('environments', {type: 'directory'});
+		envdir = envdir.replace(/\\/g, '/');
+		localConfig = require(envdir + '/dockerConfig.json');
+	} catch (e) {
+		console.error("no env configuration was found!");
+	}
+}
+
+config = _.merge(config, localConfig);
+var {setDefaultTimeout} = require('cucumber');
+
+
+/**
+ * @module Context
+ * @description Context that is used per feature file and can be accessed as 'this.context' in all steps.<Br>
+ *     This class can be extended in order to add additional configurations.
+ *<Br>
+ * Contains the following items:<br>
+ * <li>this.context.server <ul>REST server and onboarding prefix including version. set either in configuration file or from the command line or SERVER environment variable</ul>
+ * <li>this.context.item <ul>When a VLM or VSP has been created, this has the an id and versionId set to the correct IDs.</ul>
+ * <li>this.context <ul>Object with properties that were saved in the steps.</ul>
+ * <li>this.context.inputdata <ul><b>Automatically updated with the last responseData from the Rest call</b><br>Object with properties that were prepares in the steps.</ul>
+ * <li>this.context.responseData <ul>Response from the last REST call.</ul>
+ **/
+class CustomWorld {
+	constructor(options) {
+		this.context = {};
+		this.context.headers = {};
+		let typeName;
+
+		this.context.defaultServerType = 'main';
+		for (typeName in config) {
+			this.context.headers[typeName] = {};
+			if (config[typeName].user) {
+				this.context.headers[typeName]['USER_ID'] = config[typeName].user;
+			}
+			// adding additional headers
+			if (config[typeName].additionalHeaders) {
+				_.assign(this.context.headers[typeName] , config[typeName].additionalHeaders);
+			}
+			if (config[typeName].isDefault !== undefined && config[typeName].isDefault) {
+				this.context.defaultServerType = typeName;
+			}
+		}
+		this.context.item = {id: null, versionId: null, componentId: null};
+		// adding the default items that should also be initialized
+		if (config.initData) {
+			_.assign(this.context, config.initData);
+		}
+
+		this.context.shouldFail = false;
+		this.context.errorCode = null;
+		this.context.inputData = null;
+		this.context.responseData = null;
+
+
+		this.config = config;
+
+		let context = this.context;
+		this.context.getUrlForType = (function(type) {
+			var _server = context.server;
+			var _config = config;
+			return function(type) {
+				let typeData = _config[type];
+				let _url = typeData.protocol + '://' +
+					typeData.server + ':' +
+					typeData.port + '/' +
+					typeData.prefix;
+				return _url;
+			}
+		})();
+		setDefaultTimeout(60 * 1000);
+	}
+}
+setWorldConstructor(CustomWorld);