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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.arrow.flight;
+
+import java.util.Collections;
+
+import org.apache.arrow.flight.FlightClient.ClientStreamListener;
+import org.apache.arrow.flight.TestBasicOperation.Producer;
+import org.apache.arrow.memory.BufferAllocator;
+import org.apache.arrow.memory.RootAllocator;
+
+import org.apache.arrow.vector.VectorSchemaRoot;
+import org.apache.arrow.vector.types.pojo.ArrowType;
+import org.apache.arrow.vector.types.pojo.Field;
+import org.apache.arrow.vector.types.pojo.Schema;
+import org.junit.Assert;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class TestFlightClient {
+  /**
+   * ARROW-5063: make sure two clients to the same location can be closed independently.
+   */
+  @Test
+  public void independentShutdown() throws Exception {
+    try (final BufferAllocator allocator = new RootAllocator(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
+        final FlightServer server = FlightTestUtil.getStartedServer(
+            port -> FlightServer.builder(allocator, Location.forGrpcInsecure(FlightTestUtil.LOCALHOST, port),
+                new Producer(allocator)).build())) {
+      final Location location = Location.forGrpcInsecure(FlightTestUtil.LOCALHOST, server.getPort());
+      final Schema schema = new Schema(Collections.singletonList(Field.nullable("a", new ArrowType.Int(32, true))));
+      try (final FlightClient client1 = FlightClient.builder(allocator, location).build();
+          final VectorSchemaRoot root = VectorSchemaRoot.create(schema, allocator)) {
+        // Use startPut as this ensures the RPC won't finish until we want it to
+        final ClientStreamListener listener = client1.startPut(FlightDescriptor.path("test"), root);
+        try (final FlightClient client2 = FlightClient.builder(allocator, location).build()) {
+          client2.listActions().forEach(actionType -> Assert.assertNotNull(actionType.getType()));
+        }
+        listener.completed();
+        listener.getResult();
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}