Tmp

Temporary directories that are monitored and automatically removed in Elixir.

Installation

The package can be installed by adding tmp to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

defdepsdo[{:tmp,"~> 0.3.0"}]end

Usage

Define your Tmp module:

defmoduleMyApp.TmpdouseTmpend# Or with a custom base directorydefmoduleMyApp.CustomTmpdouseTmp,base_dir: "/tmp/my_dir"end

Add it to your supervision tree:

children=[{MyApp.Tmp,name: MyApp.Tmp}]

Use it in your code:

MyApp.Tmp.dir(fntmp_dir_path->file_path=Path.join(tmp_dir_path,"my_file")# do work with file_path...# then return a valueEnum.sum([1,2,3])end)# => 6

Options

When calling MyApp.Tmp.dir/2, you can pass the following options:

• :prefix (optional) - Prefix for the temporary directory name, defaults to nil
• :base_dir (optional) - Base directory for the temporary directory, defaults to System.tmp_dir() or the value set in use Tmp
• :timeout (optional) - Timeout in milliseconds, defaults to :infinity

More Examples

MyApp.Tmp.dir(fntmp_dir_path->File.touch(Path.join(tmp_dir_path,"file_one"))# ... other important work2+2end,prefix: "my_app",base_dir: "/tmp/custom_base")# => 4

Docs

Documentation can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/tmp.

License

Tmp is MIT licensed.