pub struct TempDir { /* private fields */ }
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A directory in the filesystem that is automatically deleted when it goes out of scope.
The TempDir
type creates a directory on the file system that
is deleted once it goes out of scope. At construction, the
TempDir
creates a new directory with a randomly generated name.
The default constructor, TempDir::new()
, creates directories in
the location returned by std::env::temp_dir()
, but TempDir
can be configured to manage a temporary directory in any location
by constructing with a Builder
.
After creating a TempDir
, work with the file system by doing
standard std::fs
file system operations on its Path
,
which can be retrieved with TempDir::path()
. Once the TempDir
value is dropped, the directory at the path will be deleted, along
with any files and directories it contains. It is your responsibility
to ensure that no further file system operations are attempted
inside the temporary directory once it has been deleted.
Resource Leaking
Various platform-specific conditions may cause TempDir
to fail
to delete the underlying directory. It’s important to ensure that
handles (like File
and ReadDir
) to files inside the
directory are dropped before the TempDir
goes out of scope. The
TempDir
destructor will silently ignore any errors in deleting
the directory; to instead handle errors call TempDir::close()
.
Note that if the program exits before the TempDir
destructor is
run, such as via std::process::exit()
, by segfaulting, or by
receiving a signal like SIGINT
, then the temporary directory
will not be deleted.
Examples
Create a temporary directory with a generated name:
use std::fs::File;
use std::io::Write;
use tempfile::TempDir;
// Create a directory inside of `std::env::temp_dir()`
let tmp_dir = TempDir::new()?;
Create a temporary directory with a prefix in its name:
use std::fs::File;
use std::io::Write;
use tempfile::Builder;
// Create a directory inside of `std::env::temp_dir()`,
// whose name will begin with 'example'.
let tmp_dir = Builder::new().prefix("example").tempdir()?;
Implementations§
source§impl TempDir
impl TempDir
sourcepub fn new() -> Result<TempDir>
pub fn new() -> Result<TempDir>
Attempts to make a temporary directory inside of env::temp_dir()
.
See Builder
for more configuration.
The directory and everything inside it will be automatically deleted
once the returned TempDir
is destroyed.
Errors
If the directory can not be created, Err
is returned.
Examples
use std::fs::File;
use std::io::Write;
use tempfile::TempDir;
// Create a directory inside of `std::env::temp_dir()`
let tmp_dir = TempDir::new()?;
let file_path = tmp_dir.path().join("my-temporary-note.txt");
let mut tmp_file = File::create(file_path)?;
writeln!(tmp_file, "Brian was here. Briefly.")?;
// `tmp_dir` goes out of scope, the directory as well as
// `tmp_file` will be deleted here.
sourcepub fn new_in<P: AsRef<Path>>(dir: P) -> Result<TempDir>
pub fn new_in<P: AsRef<Path>>(dir: P) -> Result<TempDir>
Attempts to make a temporary directory inside of dir
.
The directory and everything inside it will be automatically
deleted once the returned TempDir
is destroyed.
Errors
If the directory can not be created, Err
is returned.
Examples
use std::fs::{self, File};
use std::io::Write;
use tempfile::TempDir;
// Create a directory inside of the current directory
let tmp_dir = TempDir::new_in(".")?;
let file_path = tmp_dir.path().join("my-temporary-note.txt");
let mut tmp_file = File::create(file_path)?;
writeln!(tmp_file, "Brian was here. Briefly.")?;
sourcepub fn path(&self) -> &Path
pub fn path(&self) -> &Path
Accesses the Path
to the temporary directory.
Examples
use tempfile::TempDir;
let tmp_path;
{
let tmp_dir = TempDir::new()?;
tmp_path = tmp_dir.path().to_owned();
// Check that the temp directory actually exists.
assert!(tmp_path.exists());
// End of `tmp_dir` scope, directory will be deleted
}
// Temp directory should be deleted by now
assert_eq!(tmp_path.exists(), false);
sourcepub fn into_path(self) -> PathBuf
pub fn into_path(self) -> PathBuf
Persist the temporary directory to disk, returning the PathBuf
where it is located.
This consumes the TempDir
without deleting directory on the filesystem, meaning that
the directory will no longer be automatically deleted.
Examples
use std::fs;
use tempfile::TempDir;
let tmp_dir = TempDir::new()?;
// Persist the temporary directory to disk,
// getting the path where it is.
let tmp_path = tmp_dir.into_path();
// Delete the temporary directory ourselves.
fs::remove_dir_all(tmp_path)?;
sourcepub fn close(self) -> Result<()>
pub fn close(self) -> Result<()>
Closes and removes the temporary directory, returning a Result
.
Although TempDir
removes the directory on drop, in the destructor
any errors are ignored. To detect errors cleaning up the temporary
directory, call close
instead.
Errors
This function may return a variety of std::io::Error
s that result from deleting
the files and directories contained with the temporary directory,
as well as from deleting the temporary directory itself. These errors
may be platform specific.
Examples
use std::fs::File;
use std::io::Write;
use tempfile::TempDir;
// Create a directory inside of `std::env::temp_dir()`.
let tmp_dir = TempDir::new()?;
let file_path = tmp_dir.path().join("my-temporary-note.txt");
let mut tmp_file = File::create(file_path)?;
writeln!(tmp_file, "Brian was here. Briefly.")?;
// By closing the `TempDir` explicitly we can check that it has
// been deleted successfully. If we don't close it explicitly,
// the directory will still be deleted when `tmp_dir` goes out
// of scope, but we won't know whether deleting the directory
// succeeded.
drop(tmp_file);
tmp_dir.close()?;