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"

       •   Lock files 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 beginning 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.

       "scratch"
           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.