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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You 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.
+ */
+package org.apache.sling.testing.clients.util;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+/** Return timeout values that can be multiplied by a configurable
+ *  factor. Useful to cope with slower integration testing systems:
+ *  use timeout constants in your code that work for usual development
+ *  systems, and set a multiplier when running on a slower system.
+ */
+public class TimeoutsProvider {
+    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(TimeoutsProvider.class);
+    public static final String PROP_TIMEOUT_MULTIPLIER = "sling.testing.timeout.multiplier";
+    private static float timeoutFactor = -1;
+    private static TimeoutsProvider INSTANCE;
+    
+    private TimeoutsProvider() {
+        if(timeoutFactor < 0) {
+            timeoutFactor = 1;
+            final String str = System.getProperty(PROP_TIMEOUT_MULTIPLIER);
+            if(str != null) {
+                try {
+                    timeoutFactor = Float.valueOf(str.trim());
+                    log.info("Timeout factor set to {} from system property {}", 
+                            timeoutFactor, PROP_TIMEOUT_MULTIPLIER);
+                } catch(NumberFormatException nfe) {
+                    throw new IllegalStateException("Invalid timeout factor: " + PROP_TIMEOUT_MULTIPLIER + "=" + str);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    
+    public static TimeoutsProvider getInstance() {
+        if(INSTANCE == null) {
+            synchronized (TimeoutsProvider.class) {
+                INSTANCE = new TimeoutsProvider();
+            }
+        }
+        return INSTANCE;
+    }
+    
+    public long getTimeout(long nomimalValue) {
+        final long result = (long)(nomimalValue * timeoutFactor);
+        return result;
+    }
+    
+    public int getTimeout(int nomimalValue) {
+        final int result = (int)(nomimalValue * timeoutFactor);
+        return result;
+    }
+    
+    /**
+     * Get timeout from a system property, with default value
+     */
+    public int getTimeout(String systemPropertyName, int defaultNominalValue) {
+        int result = defaultNominalValue;
+        final String str = System.getProperty(systemPropertyName);
+        if(str != null) {
+            result = Integer.parseInt(str);
+        }
+        return getTimeout(result);
+    }
+}