feat(common): Servers utility class

Useful when working with HTTP servers especially for
test case authoring where there's a lot of server
creation for the purpose of allocating random ports
prior to launching an API server instance.

Fixes hyperledger-cacti#260
Fixes hyperledger-cacti#267

Signed-off-by: Peter Somogyvari <peter.somogyvari@accenture.com>

packages/cactus-cmd-api-server/src/main/typescript/api-server.ts

@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@ import {
 } from "@hyperledger/cactus-core-api";
 import { ICactusApiServerOptions } from "./config/config-service";
 import { CACTUS_OPEN_API_JSON } from "./openapi-spec";
-import { Logger, LoggerProvider } from "@hyperledger/cactus-common";
-import { Servers } from "./common/servers";
+import { Logger, LoggerProvider, Servers } from "@hyperledger/cactus-common";
 
 export interface IApiServerConstructorOptions {
   pluginRegistry?: PluginRegistry;

packages/cactus-common/src/main/typescript/index.ts

@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 export * from "./public-api";
+export { IListenOptions, Servers } from "./servers";

packages/cactus-common/src/main/typescript/servers.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+import { AddressInfo, ListenOptions } from "net";
+import { Server } from "http";
+import { Server as SecureServer } from "https";
+import { Checks } from "./checks";
+
+export interface IListenOptions {
+  server: Server | SecureServer;
+  port: number;
+  hostname: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Utility class for handling common tasks for NodeJS HTTP/S server objects.
+ */
+export class Servers {
+  /**
+   * Returns with a promise that resolves when the server has been shut down. Rejects if anything goes wrong of if the
+   * parameters are invalid.
+   *
+   * @param server The server object that will be shut down.
+   */
+  public static async shutdown(server: Server | SecureServer): Promise<void> {
+    if (!server) {
+      throw new TypeError(`Servers#shutdown() server was falsy. Need object.`);
+    }
+    return new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
+      server.close((err: any) => {
+        if (err) {
+          reject(
+            new Error(
+              `Servers#shutdown() Failed to shut down server: ${err.stack}`
+            )
+          );
+        } else {
+          resolve();
+        }
+      });
+    });
+  }
+
+  public static async listen(options: IListenOptions): Promise<any> {
+    const fnTag = "Servers#listen()";
+
+    Checks.truthy(options, `${fnTag} arg options`);
+    Checks.truthy(options.server, `${fnTag} arg options.server`);
+    Checks.truthy(options.port, `${fnTag} arg options.port`);
+    Checks.truthy(options.hostname, `${fnTag} arg options.hostname`);
+    const { server, port, hostname } = options;
+
+    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+      server.on("error", (ex) => reject(ex));
+
+      const listenOptions: ListenOptions = {
+        host: hostname,
+        port,
+      };
+
+      // called when the `listening` event is fired
+      const onListeningHandler = () => {
+        const addressInfo = options.server.address() as AddressInfo;
+        resolve(addressInfo);
+      };
+
+      server.listen(listenOptions, onListeningHandler);
+    });
+  }
+}