Dropwizard: How to stop service programmatically

Question

To start the service, I know one uses new MyService().run(args). How to stop it?

I need to start and stop programmatically for setUp() and

Answer 1

Keep the environment variable around and add the following method to your application:

public void stop() throws Exception {
  environment.getApplicationContext().getServer().stop();
}

Now you can call myService.stop() to stop the server.