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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.activemq.usecases;
+
+import org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory;
+import org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerFactory;
+import org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerService;
+import org.apache.activemq.broker.region.*;
+import org.apache.activemq.command.ActiveMQDestination;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import javax.jms.*;
+import javax.jms.Destination;
+import javax.jms.Topic;
+import java.net.URI;
+
+/**
+ * Created by ceposta
+ * <a href="http://christianposta.com/blog>http://christianposta.com/blog</a>.
+ */
+public class AMQ5153LevelDBSubscribedDestTest extends org.apache.activemq.TestSupport {
+
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(AMQ5153LevelDBSubscribedDestTest.class);
+    protected BrokerService brokerService;
+
+    @Override
+    protected void setUp() throws Exception {
+        super.setUp();
+        brokerService = createBroker();
+        getConnectionFactory().setClientID(getName());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void tearDown() throws Exception {
+        brokerService.stop();
+        brokerService.waitUntilStopped();
+    }
+
+    protected ActiveMQConnectionFactory createConnectionFactory() throws Exception {
+        return new ActiveMQConnectionFactory("vm://localhost");
+    }
+
+    protected BrokerService createBroker() throws Exception {
+        BrokerService broker = BrokerFactory.createBroker(new URI("broker:()/localhost?persistent=true"));
+        setPersistenceAdapter(broker, PersistenceAdapterChoice.LevelDB);
+        broker.deleteAllMessages();
+        broker.start();
+        broker.waitUntilStarted();
+        return broker;
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void testWildcardDurableSubscriptions() throws Exception {
+
+        Destination wildcardJmsDest = createDestination("testing.durable.>");
+        Destination testJmsDest = createDestination("testing.durable.test");
+
+        Connection conn = createConnection();
+        Session sess = conn.createSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
+        MessageConsumer wildcardConsumer = sess.createDurableSubscriber((Topic) wildcardJmsDest, "durable1");
+        MessageConsumer testConsumer = sess.createDurableSubscriber((Topic) testJmsDest, "durable2");
+
+
+        MessageProducer producer = sess.createProducer(createDestination("testing.durable.>"));
+        producer.send(sess.createTextMessage("hello!"));
+
+        org.apache.activemq.broker.region.Topic wildcardDest = (org.apache.activemq.broker.region.Topic) getDestination(brokerService, ActiveMQDestination.transform(wildcardJmsDest));
+        org.apache.activemq.broker.region.Topic testDest = (org.apache.activemq.broker.region.Topic) getDestination(brokerService, ActiveMQDestination.transform(testJmsDest));
+
+
+        wildcardConsumer.close();
+        testConsumer.close();
+        conn.close();
+
+        assertEquals(1, wildcardDest.getDurableTopicSubs().size());
+        assertEquals(2, testDest.getDurableTopicSubs().size());
+
+        LOG.info("Stopping broker...");
+        brokerService.stop();
+        brokerService.waitUntilStopped();
+
+        setPersistenceAdapter(brokerService, PersistenceAdapterChoice.LevelDB);
+        brokerService.start(true);
+        brokerService.waitUntilStarted();
+
+
+        wildcardDest = (org.apache.activemq.broker.region.Topic) getDestination(brokerService, ActiveMQDestination.transform(wildcardJmsDest));
+        assertNotNull(wildcardDest);
+        testDest = (org.apache.activemq.broker.region.Topic) getDestination(brokerService, ActiveMQDestination.transform(testJmsDest));
+        assertNotNull(testDest);
+
+        assertEquals(2, testDest.getDurableTopicSubs().size());
+        assertEquals(1, wildcardDest.getDurableTopicSubs().size());
+
+    }
+}