The ClusterStartupRule, LocatorStarterRule, and ServerStarterRule rules all
have withTempWorkingDir methods that should take care of this, as well.
These temporary directories should be removed as part of the rules @After
invocation.
On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 10:23 AM, Jinmei Liao <jil...@pivotal.io> wrote:
> +1 for always using absolute path in our product code.
>
> Also the server/locator launchers should be able to take a working-dir as
> parameter to store all the stat/logs/config files.
>
> On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 3:49 PM, Kirk Lund <kl...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > The from should be:
> >
> > this.viewFile = new File("locator" + server.getPort() + "view.dat");
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Kirk Lund <kl...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Just to help facilitate the discussion, here's a pull request that
> > changes
> > > GMSLocator from:
> > >
> > > this.viewFile = new File(System.getProperty("user.dir"),
> "locator" +
> > > server.getPort() + "view.dat");
> > >
> > > ...to:
> > >
> > > this.viewFile = new File(System.getProperty("user.dir"),
> "locator" +
> > > server.getPort() + "view.dat");
> > >
> > > To allow the new test LocatorViewFileTemporaryFolderDUnitTest to
> > redirect
> > > the locator view dat file to a JUnit TemporaryFolder.
> > >
> > > The only other way I can think of to this is to introduce a new Geode
> > > property for "current-directory" which a test could specify. That
> > property
> > > value would have to be pushed down to every class that creates a new
> > File.
> > >
> > > Pull request: https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/1243
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 3:32 PM, Kirk Lund <kl...@apache.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Any calls such as:
> > >>
> > >> File file = new File("myfile");
> > >>
> > >> ...results in creating a file in the current working directory of
> > >> IntelliJ or Gradle when executing the test.
> > >>
> > >> I previously made a change to Gfsh so that tests can pass in a parent
> > >> directory which will be used instead. This allowed me to change all of
> > the
> > >> Gfsh tests to write to a JUnit TemporaryFolder.
> > >>
> > >> This allows us to clean up ALL file artifacts produced from a test and
> > >> also allows us to avoid file-based pollution from one test to another.
> > >>
> > >> I'd like to propose that we either always pass a parent directory
> into a
> > >> component that produces file artifacts or change all of our code from
> > using
> > >> the constructor File(String pathname) to using the constructor
> > File(String
> > >> parent, String child).
> > >>
> > >> That 2nd approach would involve changing lines like this:
> > >>
> > >> File file = new File("myfile");
> > >>
> > >> ...to:
> > >>
> > >> File file = new File(System.getProperty("user.dir"), "myfile");
> > >>
> > >> Then if you add this line to a test:
> > >>
> > >> System.setProperty("user.dir", temporaryFolder.getRoot().getA
> > >> bsolutePath());
> > >>
> > >> ...you're able to redirect all file artifacts to the JUnit
> > >> TemporaryFolder.
> > >>
> > >> If we don't make this change to product code, then I really don't
> think
> > >> we should be manipulating "user.dir" in ANY of our tests because the
> > >> results are rather broken.
> > >>
> > >> If we don't like using "user.dir" then we could devise our own Geode
> > >> system property for "the current working directory." Honestly, I don't
> > care
> > >> what system property we use or don't use, but I really want to have
> ALL
> > >> file artifacts properly cleaned and deleted after every test. And I
> > really
> > >> want to prevent file-based test pollution.
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers
>
> Jinmei
>
