tempdir

A Rust library for creating a temporary directory and deleting its entire contents when the directory is dropped.

Documentation

Usage

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

toml [dependencies] tempdir = "0.3"

and this to your crate root:

rust extern crate tempdir;

Example

This sample method does the following:

1. Create a temporary directory in the default location with the given prefix.
2. Determine a file path in the directory and print it out.
3. Create a file inside the temp folder.
4. Write to the file and sync it to disk.
5. Close the directory, deleting the contents in the process.

```rust fn writetempfolderwithfiles() -> Result<(), io::Error> { if let Ok(dir) = TempDir::new("mydirectoryprefix") { let filepath = dir.path().join("foo.txt"); println!("{:?}", filepath);

    let mut f = try!(File::create(file_path));
    try!(f.write_all(b"Hello, world!"));
    try!(f.sync_all());
    try!(dir.close());
}
Ok(())

} ```

Note: Closing the directory is actually optional, as it would be done on drop. The benefit of closing here is that it allows possible errors to be handled.