Test::TempDir(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Test::TempDir(3)NAMETest::TempDir - Temporary files support for testing.
SYNOPSIS
use Test::TempDir;
my $test_tempdir = temp_root();
my ( $fh, $file ) = tempfile();
my $directory_scratch_obj = scratch();
DESCRIPTIONTest::TempDir provides temporary directory creation with testing in
mind.
The differences between using this and using File::Temp are:
· If "t/tmp" is available (writable, creatable, etc) it's preferred
over $ENV{TMPDIR} etc. Otherwise a temporary directory will be
used.
This is "temp_root"
· Lockfiles are used on "t/tmp", to prevent race conditions when
running under a parallel test harness.
· The "temp_root" is cleaned at the end of a test run, but not if
tests failed.
· "temp_root" is emptied at the begining of a test run
unconditionally.
· The default policy is not to clean the individual "tempfiles" and
"tempdirs" within "temp_root", in order to aid in debugging of
failed tests.
EXPORTS
temp_root
The root of the temporary stuff.
tempfile
tempdir
Wrappers for the File::Temp functions of the same name.
The default options are changed to use "temp_root" for "DIR" and
disable "CLEANUP", but these are overridable.
scrach
Loads Directory::Scratch and instantiates a new one, with the same
default options as "tempfile" and "tempdir".
SEE ALSO
File::Temp, Directory::Scratch, Path::Class
VERSION CONTROL
This module is maintained using Git. You can get the latest version
from git://github.com/nothingmuch/test-tempdir.git
<git://github.com/nothingmuch/test-tempdir.git>.
AUTHOR
Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2008 Yuval Kogman. All rights reserved
This program is free software; you can redistribute
it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.14.1 2009-08-11 Test::TempDir(3)
