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+/*
+ * JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source.
+ *
+ * Copyright 2021 Red Hat, Inc., and individual contributors
+ * as indicated by the @author tags.
+ *
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+package org.jboss.resteasy.microprofile.test.client.integration;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
+
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.eclipse.microprofile.rest.client.RestClientBuilder;
+import org.eclipse.microprofile.rest.client.inject.RegisterRestClient;
+import org.jboss.arquillian.container.test.api.Deployment;
+import org.jboss.arquillian.container.test.api.RunAsClient;
+import org.jboss.arquillian.junit.Arquillian;
+import org.jboss.arquillian.test.api.ArquillianResource;
+import org.jboss.resteasy.microprofile.test.util.TestEnvironment;
+import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.Archive;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+
+/**
+ * MicroProfile rest client
+ * Integration tests
+ * Testing that using nonProxyHosts property with * near index 0 doesn't throw
+ * regex.PatternSyntaxException while trying to build a rest client
+ * https://github.com/resteasy/resteasy-microprofile/issues/10
+ */
+@RunWith(Arquillian.class)
+@RunAsClient
+public class RestClientNonProxyHostsPatternTest {
+
+    //asterisk must be at index 0
+    private static final String NON_PROXY_HOSTS = "*.localhost";
+
+    @ArquillianResource
+    private URL url;
+
+    @Deployment
+    public static Archive<?> deploy() {
+        return TestEnvironment.createWar(RestClientNonProxyHostsPatternTest.class)
+                .addClasses(HelloClient.class);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testProxyOperationAfterNonProxyHostSetWithFirstIndexAsterisk() {
+
+        Map<String, String> originalProperties = new HashMap<>();
+        originalProperties.put("http.proxyHost", System.getProperty("http.proxyHost"));
+        originalProperties.put("http.proxyPort", System.getProperty("http.proxyPort"));
+        originalProperties.put("http.nonProxyHosts", System.getProperty("http.nonProxyHosts"));
+
+        try {
+            System.setProperty("http.proxyHost", url.getHost());
+            System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", String.valueOf(url.getPort()));
+            System.setProperty("http.nonProxyHosts", NON_PROXY_HOSTS);
+
+            HelloClient helloClient = RestClientBuilder.newBuilder().baseUrl(url).build(HelloClient.class);
+            assertNotNull(helloClient);
+        } finally {
+            resetOriginalProperties(originalProperties);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @RegisterRestClient
+    public interface HelloClient {
+    }
+
+    private static void resetOriginalProperties(Map<String, String> originalProperties) {
+        for (Map.Entry<String, String> property : originalProperties.entrySet()) {
+            if (property.getValue() != null) {
+                System.setProperty(property.getKey(), property.getValue());
+            } else {
+                System.clearProperty(property.getKey());
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+}