temp-dir
========
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Provides a `TempDir` struct.
# Features
- Makes a directory in a system temporary directory
- Recursively deletes the directory and its contents on drop
- Deletes symbolic links and does not follow them
- Optional name prefix
- Depends only on `std`
- `forbid(unsafe_code)`
- 100% test coverage
# Limitations
- Not security-hardened.
For example, directory and file names are predictable.
- This crate uses
[`std::fs::remove_dir_all`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/fs/fn.remove_dir_all.html)
which may be unreliable on Windows.
See [rust#29497](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/29497) and
[`remove_dir_all`](https://crates.io/crates/remove_dir_all) crate.
# Alternatives
- [`tempdir`](https://crates.io/crates/tempdir)
- Unmaintained
- Popular and mature
- Heavy dependencies (rand, winapi)
- [`tempfile`](https://crates.io/crates/tempfile)
- Popular and mature
- Contains `unsafe`, dependencies full of `unsafe`
- Heavy dependencies (libc, winapi, rand, etc.)
- [`test_dir`](https://crates.io/crates/test_dir)
- Has a handy `TestDir` struct
- Incomplete documentation
- [`temp_testdir`](https://crates.io/crates/temp_testdir)
- Incomplete documentation
- [`mktemp`](https://crates.io/crates/mktemp)
- Sets directory mode 0700 on unix
- Contains `unsafe`
- No readme or online docs
# Related Crates
- [`temp-file`](https://crates.io/crates/temp-file)
# Example
```rust
use temp_dir::TempDir;
let d = TempDir::new().unwrap();
// Prints "/tmp/t1a9b-0".
println!("{:?}", d.path());
let f = d.child("file1");
// Prints "/tmp/t1a9b-0/file1".
println!("{:?}", f);
std::fs::write(&f, b"abc").unwrap();
assert_eq!(
"abc",
std::fs::read_to_string(&f).unwrap(),
);
// Prints "/tmp/t1a9b-1".
println!(
"{:?}", TempDir::new().unwrap().path());
```
# Cargo Geiger Safety Report
```
Metric output format: x/y
x = unsafe code used by the build
y = total unsafe code found in the crate
Symbols:
🔒 = No `unsafe` usage found, declares #![forbid(unsafe_code)]
❓ = No `unsafe` usage found, missing #![forbid(unsafe_code)]
☢️ = `unsafe` usage found
Functions Expressions Impls Traits Methods Dependency
0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 🔒 temp-dir 0.1.14
0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
```
# Changelog
- v0.1.14 - `AsRef<Path>`
- v0.1.13 - Update docs.
- v0.1.12 - Work when the directory already exists.
- v0.1.11
- Return `std::io::Error` instead of `String`.
- Add
[`cleanup`](https://docs.rs/temp-file/latest/temp_file/struct.TempFile.html#method.cleanup).
- v0.1.10 - Implement `Eq`, `Ord`, `Hash`
- v0.1.9 - Increase test coverage
- v0.1.8 - Add [`leak`](https://docs.rs/temp-dir/latest/temp_dir/struct.TempDir.html#method.leak).
- v0.1.7 - Update docs:
Warn about `std::fs::remove_dir_all` being unreliable on Windows.
Warn about predictable directory and file names.
Thanks to Reddit user
[burntsushi](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ma6y0x/tempdir_simple_temporary_directory_with_cleanup/gruo5iu/).
- v0.1.6 - Add
[`TempDir::panic_on_cleanup_error`](https://docs.rs/temp-dir/latest/temp_dir/struct.TempDir.html#method.panic_on_cleanup_error).
Thanks to Reddit users
[`KhorneLordOfChaos`](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ma6y0x/tempdir_simple_temporary_directory_with_cleanup/grsb5s3/)
and
[`dpc_pw`](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ma6y0x/tempdir_simple_temporary_directory_with_cleanup/gru26df/)
for their comments.
- v0.1.5 - Explain how it handles symbolic links.
Thanks to Reddit user Mai4eeze for this
[idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ma6y0x/tempdir_simple_temporary_directory_with_cleanup/grsoz2g/).
- v0.1.4 - Update docs
- v0.1.3 - Minor code cleanup, update docs
- v0.1.2 - Update docs
- v0.1.1 - Fix license
- v0.1.0 - Initial version
License: Apache-2.0