Started a standalone API test case

src/tests/test_api_thread.py

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+import time
+import unittest
+
+from six.moves import xmlrpc_client
+
+from pybitmessage import pathmagic
+
+
+class TestAPIThread(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Test case running the API thread"""
+
+    @classmethod
+    def setUpClass(cls):
+        pathmagic.setup()  # need this because of import state in network ):
+
+        import helper_sql
+        import helper_startup
+        import state
+        from bmconfigparser import BMConfigParser
+
+        class SqlReadyMock(object):
+            @staticmethod
+            def wait():
+                return
+
+        helper_sql.sql_ready = SqlReadyMock
+        cls.state = state
+        helper_startup.loadConfig()
+        # helper_startup.fixSocket()
+        config = BMConfigParser()
+
+        config.set(
+            'bitmessagesettings', 'apiusername', 'username')
+        config.set(
+            'bitmessagesettings', 'apipassword', 'password')
+        config.save()
+
+        import api
+        cls.thread = api.singleAPI()
+        cls.thread.daemon = True
+        cls.thread.start()
+        time.sleep(3)
+        cls.api = xmlrpc_client.ServerProxy(
+            "http://username:password@127.0.0.1:8442/")
+
+    def test_connection(self):
+        """API command 'helloWorld'"""
+        self.assertEqual(
+            self.api.helloWorld('hello', 'world'), 'hello-world')
+
+    @classmethod
+    def tearDownClass(cls):
+        cls.state.shutdown = 1