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JUnit Test Temp Directory
What do you feel is the best place to create temporary files and
directories for a unit test?
Should I use a directory under target?
Should I create a temp file using File.createTempFile()?
The latter does not help if I want a temp directory.
Thoughts, please.
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Re: JUnit Test Temp Directory
Posted by Alain Javier Guarnieri del Gesu <ja...@ajgdg.com>.
* Peter Donald <pe...@realityforge.org> [2003-11-03 22:14]:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 08:59 am, Alain Javier Guarnieri del Gesu wrote:
> > What do you feel is the best place to create temporary files and
> > directories for a unit test?
> >
> > Should I use a directory under target?
> >
> > Should I create a temp file using File.createTempFile()?
> >
> > The latter does not help if I want a temp directory.
>
> I generally put it under target/test-data. Heres the code I use in
> quite a few of my unit tests to generate base directory for test
> data.
Thank you for the thoughts and the code. That's what I'll do then.
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Re: JUnit Test Temp Directory
Posted by Peter Donald <pe...@realityforge.org>.
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 08:59 am, Alain Javier Guarnieri del Gesu wrote:
> What do you feel is the best place to create temporary files and
> directories for a unit test?
>
> Should I use a directory under target?
>
> Should I create a temp file using File.createTempFile()?
>
> The latter does not help if I want a temp directory.
I generally put it under target/test-data. Heres the code I use in quite a few
of my unit tests to generate base directory for test data.
private static final File generateDirectory()
throws IOException
{
final File baseDirectory = getBaseDirectory();
final File dir =
File.createTempFile( "mgtest", ".tmp", baseDirectory
).getCanonicalFile();
dir.delete();
dir.mkdirs();
assertTrue( "dir.exists()", dir.exists() );
return dir;
}
private static final File getBaseDirectory()
{
final String tempDir = System.getProperty( "java.io.tmpdir" );
final String baseDir = System.getProperty( "basedir", tempDir );
final File base = new File( baseDir ).getAbsoluteFile();
final String pathname =
base + File.separator + "target" + File.separator + "test-data";
final File dir = new File( pathname );
dir.mkdirs();
return dir;
}
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