Created method which copy file from repository to container

core/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/containers/Container.java

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 import org.testcontainers.containers.traits.LinkableContainer;
 import org.testcontainers.containers.wait.Wait;
 import org.testcontainers.containers.wait.WaitStrategy;
+import org.testcontainers.utility.MountableFile;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
@@ -392,6 +393,27 @@ ExecResult execInContainer(String... command)
     ExecResult execInContainer(Charset outputCharset, String... command)
                     throws UnsupportedOperationException, IOException, InterruptedException;
 
+    /**
+     *
+     * Copies a file which resides inside the classpath to the container.
+     *
+     * @param mountableLocalFile file which is copied into the container
+     * @param containerPath destination path inside the container
+     * @throws IOException if there's an issue communicating with Docker
+     * @throws InterruptedException if the thread waiting for the response is interrupted
+     */
+    void copyFileToContainer(MountableFile mountableLocalFile, String containerPath) throws IOException, InterruptedException;
+
+    /**
+     * Copies a file which resides inside the container to user defined directory
+     *
+     * @param containerPath path to file which is copied from container
+     * @param destinationPath destination path to which file is copied with file name
+     * @throws IOException if there's an issue communicating with Docker or receiving entry from TarArchiveInputStream
+     * @throws InterruptedException if the thread waiting for the response is interrupted
+     */
+    void copyFileFromContainer(String containerPath, String destinationPath) throws IOException, InterruptedException;
+
     List<Integer> getExposedPorts();
 
     List<String> getPortBindings();

core/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/containers/GenericContainer.java

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
 import com.google.common.base.Strings;
 import lombok.*;
+import org.apache.commons.compress.utils.IOUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar.TarArchiveInputStream;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
 import org.junit.runner.Description;
 import org.rnorth.ducttape.ratelimits.RateLimiter;
@@ -31,6 +33,7 @@
 import org.testcontainers.utility.*;
 
 import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
@@ -850,6 +853,32 @@ public ExecResult execInContainer(String... command)
         return execInContainer(UTF8, command);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * {@inheritDoc}
+     */
+    @Override
+    public void copyFileToContainer(MountableFile mountableLocalFile, String containerPath) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
+
+        this.dockerClient
+                .copyArchiveToContainerCmd(this.containerId)
+                .withHostResource(mountableLocalFile.getResolvedPath())
+                .withRemotePath(containerPath)
+                .exec();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * {@inheritDoc}
+     */
+    @Override
+    public void copyFileFromContainer(String containerPath, String destinationPath) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
+        try (final TarArchiveInputStream tarInputStream = new TarArchiveInputStream(this.dockerClient
+                .copyArchiveFromContainerCmd(this.containerId, containerPath)
+                .exec())) {
+            tarInputStream.getNextTarEntry();
+            IOUtils.copy(tarInputStream, new FileOutputStream(destinationPath));
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * {@inheritDoc}
      */

core/src/test/java/org/testcontainers/junit/GenericContainerRuleTest.java

@@ -1,17 +1,21 @@
 package org.testcontainers.junit;
 
+import com.github.dockerjava.api.exception.NotFoundException;
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
+import com.google.common.io.Files;
 import com.google.common.util.concurrent.Uninterruptibles;
 import com.mongodb.MongoClient;
 import com.mongodb.client.MongoCollection;
 import com.mongodb.client.MongoDatabase;
 import com.rabbitmq.client.*;
+import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
 import org.bson.Document;
 import org.junit.*;
 import org.rnorth.ducttape.RetryCountExceededException;
 import org.rnorth.ducttape.unreliables.Unreliables;
 import org.testcontainers.containers.GenericContainer;
 import org.testcontainers.utility.Base58;
+import org.testcontainers.utility.MountableFile;
 import org.testcontainers.utility.TestEnvironment;
 
 import java.io.*;
@@ -320,6 +324,54 @@ public void createContainerCmdHookTest() {
         }
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void copyToContainerTest() throws Exception {
+        final File tempResultFolder = Files.createTempDir();
+
+        try (final GenericContainer alpineCopyToContainer = new GenericContainer("alpine:3.2")
+                    .withCommand("top")){
+
+            alpineCopyToContainer.start();
+            final MountableFile mountableFile = MountableFile.forClasspathResource("test_copy_to_container.txt");
+            alpineCopyToContainer.copyFileToContainer(mountableFile, "/home/");
+            alpineCopyToContainer.copyFileFromContainer("/home/test_copy_to_container.txt",
+                    tempResultFolder.getAbsolutePath() + "/test_copy_to_container.txt");
+
+            File expectedFile = new File(mountableFile.getResolvedPath());
+            File actualFile = new File(tempResultFolder.getAbsolutePath() + "/test_copy_to_container.txt");
+            assertTrue("Files aren't same ", FileUtils.contentEquals(expectedFile,actualFile));
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test(expected = NotFoundException.class)
+    public void copyFromContainerShouldFailBecauseNoFileTest() throws NotFoundException, IOException, InterruptedException {
+
+        try (final GenericContainer alpineCopyToContainer = new GenericContainer("alpine:3.2")
+                        .withCommand("top")) {
+            alpineCopyToContainer.start();
+            alpineCopyToContainer.copyFileFromContainer("/home/test.txt", "src/test/resources/copy-from/test.txt");
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void shouldCopyFileFromContainerTest() throws IOException, InterruptedException {
+        final File tempResultFolder = Files.createTempDir();
+
+        try (final GenericContainer alpineCopyToContainer = new GenericContainer("alpine:3.2")
+                .withCommand("top")) {
+
+            alpineCopyToContainer.start();
+            final MountableFile mountableFile = MountableFile.forClasspathResource("test_copy_to_container.txt");
+            alpineCopyToContainer.copyFileToContainer(mountableFile, "/home/");
+            alpineCopyToContainer.copyFileFromContainer("/home/test_copy_to_container.txt",
+                    tempResultFolder.getAbsolutePath() + "/test_copy_from_container.txt");
+
+            File expectedFile = new File(mountableFile.getResolvedPath());
+            File actualFile = new File(tempResultFolder.getAbsolutePath() + "/test_copy_from_container.txt");
+            assertTrue("Files aren't same ", FileUtils.contentEquals(expectedFile,actualFile));
+        }
+    }
+
     private BufferedReader getReaderForContainerPort80(GenericContainer container) {
 
         return Unreliables.retryUntilSuccess(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS, () -> {

core/src/test/resources/test_copy_to_container.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Some Test
+Message