Project Testing

Internal

• Projects

Testing Files in the Scratch Area of the Project

Maven Configuration

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<properties>
    <test.scratch.directory>target/test-scratch</test.scratch.directory>
</properties>

Note that the below section must be declared under the <plugins> and not <pluginManagement>:

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<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
            <dependencies>
                 <dependency>
                     <groupId>org.apache.ant</groupId>
                     <artifactId>ant</artifactId>
                     <version>1.7.0</version>
                  </dependency>
              </dependencies>
              <executions>
                  <execution>
                      <phase>generate-test-resources</phase>
                               <configuration>
                          <tasks>
                              <mkdir dir="${test.scratch.directory}" />
                          </tasks>
                      </configuration>
                      <goals>
                          <goal>run</goal>
                      </goals>
                 </execution>
             </executions>
         </plugin>
    </plugins>
   ...
</build>

Code

Initialization

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    private File scratchDirectory;

    @Before
    public void before() throws Exception {

        String projectBaseDirName = System.getProperty("basedir");
        scratchDirectory = new File(projectBaseDirName, "target/test-scratch");
        assertTrue(scratchDirectory.isDirectory());
    }

    ...

Access from Test

    ...
    
    scratchDirectory ...

   ...
    

Cleanup after Test

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    @After
    public void after() throws Exception {
        
        //
        // scratch directory cleanup
        //

        assertTrue(io.novaordis.utilities.Files.rmdir(scratchDirectory, false));

    }

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