Comments on: Temp Files = No More Dumb Commits

By: benjaminplee

benjaminplee — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:27:09 +0000

Its good to hear that I am not the only one and I really like your idea of using the test name as the file prefix. That should be helpful in tracing any problems if they come up.

Also, I am assuming you meant FileUtils.writeStringToFile(temp, streamContents); ;-)

Thanks for the comment.

By: BrianTheSmith

BrianTheSmith — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:55:34 +0000

oops that should be

FileUtils.writeStringtoFile(streamContents);

I should have looked at the JavaDocs first :p

By: BrianTheSmith

BrianTheSmith — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:53:38 +0000

We use the File.createTempFile method all the time when testing Eclipse Plugins. We end up loading lots of files from plugins in our tests.

so we end up doing something like this (using some Util classes from apache commons io)

InputStream stream = getClass().getResourceAsStream(“resourcePathHere”);
String streamContents = IOUtils.toString(stream);
File temp = File.createTempFile(“IAlwaysUseTheTestMethodName”, “tmp”);
FileUtils.toFile(streamContents);
IOUtils.closeQuietly(stream);
temp.deleteOnExit();

//Do Something with the file