Test::TempDir(3p)

NAME
Test::TempDir - Temporary files support for testing.

SYNOPSIS
        use Test::TempDir;

        my $test_tempdir = temp_root();

        my ( $fh, $file ) = tempfile();

        my $directory_scratch_obj = scratch();

DESCRIPTION
Test::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>.

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.