Temporary Files And Directories in Fortress

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Throughout program execution, we often want to create data that isn’t needed after the program exits. Temporary files and directories are useful for this purpose since they don’t pollute the file system over time.

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;

public class TemporaryFilesAndDirectories {

    private static void check(Exception e) {
        if (e != null) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            // The easiest way to create a temporary file is by
            // using Files.createTempFile. It creates a file and
            // returns its path. We provide null as the first argument,
            // so Files.createTempFile will create the file in the
            // default temporary-file directory.
            Path tempFile = Files.createTempFile("sample", null);
            System.out.println("Temp file name: " + tempFile);

            // Clean up the file after we're done. The JVM is
            // likely to clean up temporary files by itself after
            // some time, but it's good practice to do this
            // explicitly.
            tempFile.toFile().deleteOnExit();

            // We can write some data to the file.
            Files.write(tempFile, new byte[]{1, 2, 3, 4});

            // If we intend to create many temporary files, we may
            // prefer to create a temporary directory.
            // Files.createTempDirectory's arguments are similar to
            // createTempFile's, but it returns a directory path.
            Path tempDir = Files.createTempDirectory("sampledir");
            System.out.println("Temp dir name: " + tempDir);

            tempDir.toFile().deleteOnExit();

            // Now we can create files in our temporary directory.
            File file1 = new File(tempDir.toFile(), "file1");
            FileWriter writer = new FileWriter(file1);
            writer.write(new char[]{1, 2});
            writer.close();

        } catch (IOException e) {
            check(e);
        }
    }
}

To run the program, compile and execute it using javac and java:

$ javac TemporaryFilesAndDirectories.java
$ java TemporaryFilesAndDirectories
Temp file name: /tmp/sample8390892348905431863.tmp
Temp dir name: /tmp/sampledir4809112241355223655

In this Java version, we use the Files class from the java.nio.file package to create temporary files and directories. The createTempFile and createTempDirectory methods are similar to their counterparts in the original example.

We use deleteOnExit() to ensure that the temporary files and directories are deleted when the JVM exits. This is equivalent to the defer os.Remove() in the original code.

Writing to the file is done using Files.write(), which is a convenient method for writing byte arrays to a file.

For creating a file in the temporary directory, we use the File class and FileWriter to write some data to it.

The check method is implemented to throw a RuntimeException if an error occurs, similar to the panic in the original code.

Note that the exact paths of the temporary files and directories will vary depending on your system configuration.

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