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+apply plugin: 'io.spring.convention.spring-test'
+
+description = "Smoke Tests to assert that a Spring for Apache Geode project generated from Spring Initializer is a standard, non-Webapp Spring Boot application."
+
+repositories {
+ mavenCentral()
+ maven { url 'https://repo.spring.io/milestone' }
+ maven { url 'https://repo.spring.io/snapshot' }
+}
+
+dependencies {
+
+ implementation "org.assertj:assertj-core"
+
+ implementation "org.springframework.geode:spring-geode-starter:$version"
+
+ testImplementation('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test') {
+ exclude group: 'org.junit.vintage', module: 'junit-vintage-engine'
+ }
+}
+
+test {
+ useJUnitPlatform()
+}
diff --git a/spring-geode-tests/smoke-tests/spring-initializer/src/main/java/example/app/InitializerApplication.java b/spring-geode-tests/smoke-tests/spring-initializer/src/main/java/example/app/InitializerApplication.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2019 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * 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
+ *
+ * https://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.
+ */
+package example.app;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+import org.apache.geode.cache.GemFireCache;
+import org.apache.geode.cache.Region;
+import org.apache.geode.cache.client.ClientRegionShortcut;
+
+import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.WebApplicationType;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.builder.SpringApplicationBuilder;
+import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import org.springframework.data.gemfire.client.ClientRegionFactoryBean;
+import org.springframework.data.gemfire.config.annotation.EnableLogging;
+import org.springframework.web.context.WebApplicationContext;
+
+/**
+ * {@link SpringBootApplication Spring Boot application} generated from {@literal Spring Initializer}
+ * at start.spring.io.
+ *
+ * Putting data into and getting data out of an Apache Geode cache {@link Region} is the most basic function.
+ *
+ * @author John Blum
+ * @see org.apache.geode.cache.GemFireCache
+ * @see org.apache.geode.cache.Region
+ * @see org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication
+ * @see org.springframework.boot.WebApplicationType
+ * @see org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication
+ * @see org.springframework.boot.builder.SpringApplicationBuilder
+ * @see org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext
+ * @see org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean
+ * @see org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration
+ * @see org.springframework.data.gemfire.client.ClientRegionFactoryBean
+ * @see org.springframework.data.gemfire.config.annotation.EnableLogging
+ * @see org.springframework.web.context.WebApplicationContext
+ * @since 1.2.0
+ */
+@SpringBootApplication
+@SuppressWarnings("unused")
+public class InitializerApplication {
+
+ public static void main(String[] args) {
+
+ SpringApplication springApplication =
+ new SpringApplicationBuilder(InitializerApplication.class) .build();
+
+ assertThat(springApplication).isNotNull();
+ assertThat(springApplication.getWebApplicationType()).isEqualTo(WebApplicationType.NONE);
+
+ ConfigurableApplicationContext applicationContext = springApplication.run(args);
+
+ assertThat(applicationContext).isNotNull();
+ assertThat(applicationContext).isNotInstanceOf(WebApplicationContext.class);
+ assertThat(springApplication.getWebApplicationType()).isNotEqualTo(WebApplicationType.SERVLET);
+ }
+
+ @Configuration
+ @EnableLogging(logLevel = "error")
+ static class GeodeConfiguration {
+
+ @Bean("Example")
+ public ClientRegionFactoryBean