Description
- Overview
- Getting Started
- Additional Use Cases
- Handling static variables
- Handling system properties
- Handling class loaders
- Simulating files in memory
Project Documentation
File I/O in a unit test has a number of issues, including performance and platform-specific behavior. One common approach when there are a small number of predefined files to read is to store them as a resources in a project and then use relative paths to locate them, but that can tricky in multi-module projects, which might be run either from the top-level directory or the module-directory. It's also possible to create temporary files for the code to read, but that doesn't help when there is some reason that a program must read from a particular path. The InMemoryFileSystem class provides an alternate approach.