Tempfiles in unittests

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

On 2012-03-09 15:08:42 +0000, bearophile said:

> Magnus Lie Hetland:
> 
>> It seems that File has no method for reading the entire file contents 
>> into a string, so I'd have to read and concatenate lines or chunks or 
>> something?
> 
> There are std.file.read() and std.file.readText().

Yeah, I found those. I guess my post was a bit verbose, but the main 
point was that I have a File object, but no file name (because I'm 
using std.stdio.tmpfile() in a unit test), so std.file.read() and 
std.file.readText() are useless to me... :)

> But I agree that std.stdio.File should have a readAll() method
> :-) If you think this is a good idea, add it to Bugzilla.

Sure.

For now, though: What's The Way[TM] to write unit tests for code that 
writes to files? Use tmpfile and read/concatenate the file contents 
myself? Something else that's more practical? (I would have thought 
this kind of test would be common?-)

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