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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2020 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+@file:JvmName("TestPermissionUtil")
+
+package com.android.testutils
+
+import androidx.test.platform.app.InstrumentationRegistry
+import com.android.testutils.ExceptionUtils.ThrowingRunnable
+import com.android.testutils.ExceptionUtils.ThrowingSupplier
+
+/**
+ * Run the specified [task] with the specified [permissions] obtained through shell
+ * permission identity.
+ *
+ * Passing in an empty list of permissions can grant all shell permissions, but this is
+ * discouraged as it also causes the process to temporarily lose non-shell permissions.
+ */
+fun <T> runAsShell(vararg permissions: String, task: () -> T): T {
+    val autom = InstrumentationRegistry.getInstrumentation().uiAutomation
+    autom.adoptShellPermissionIdentity(*permissions)
+    try {
+        return task()
+    } finally {
+        autom.dropShellPermissionIdentity()
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Convenience overload of [runAsShell] that uses a [ThrowingSupplier] for Java callers, when
+ * only one/two/three permissions are needed.
+ */
+@JvmOverloads
+fun <T> runAsShell(
+    perm1: String,
+    perm2: String = "",
+    perm3: String = "",
+    supplier: ThrowingSupplier<T>
+): T = runAsShell(*getNonEmptyVarargs(perm1, perm2, perm3)) { supplier.get() }
+
+/**
+ * Convenience overload of [runAsShell] that uses a [ThrowingRunnable] for Java callers, when
+ * only one/two/three permissions are needed.
+ */
+@JvmOverloads
+fun runAsShell(
+    perm1: String,
+    perm2: String = "",
+    perm3: String = "",
+    runnable: ThrowingRunnable
+): Unit = runAsShell(*getNonEmptyVarargs(perm1, perm2, perm3)) { runnable.run() }
+
+/**
+ * Get an array containing the first consecutive non-empty arguments out of three arguments.
+ *
+ * The first argument is assumed to be non-empty.
+ */
+private fun getNonEmptyVarargs(arg1: String, arg2: String, arg3: String): Array<String> {
+    return when {
+        arg2 == "" -> arrayOf(arg1)
+        arg3 == "" -> arrayOf(arg1, arg2)
+        else -> arrayOf(arg1, arg2, arg3)
+    }
+}
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