A utility class for managing temporary files.
There are two kind of methods of creating a temporary file:
Tempfile.create
(recommended)
Tempfile.new
and Tempfile.open
(mostly for backward compatibility, not recommended)
Tempfile.create
creates a usual File object. The timing of file deletion is predictable. Also, it supports open-and-unlink technique which removes the temporary file immediately after creation.
Tempfile.new
and Tempfile.open
creates a Tempfile object. The created file is removed by the GC
(finalizer). The timing of file deletion is not predictable.
require 'tempfile' Tempfile.create {|f| f.puts "foo" f.rewind f.read } f = Tempfile.create f.puts "foo" f.close File.unlink(f.path) f = Tempfile.create(anonymous: true) f.path f.puts "foo" f.rewind f.read f.close Tempfile.create(anonymous: true) {|f| f.path f.puts "foo" f.rewind f.read } file = Tempfile.new('foo') file.path file.write("hello world") file.rewind file.read file.close file.unlinkAbout
Tempfile.new
and Tempfile.open
¶ ↑
This section does not apply to Tempfile.create
because it returns a File
object (not a Tempfile
object).
When you create a Tempfile
object, it will create a temporary file with a unique filename. A Tempfile
objects behaves just like a File
object, and you can perform all the usual file operations on it: reading data, writing data, changing its permissions, etc. So although this class does not explicitly document all instance methods supported by File
, you can in fact call any File
instance method on a Tempfile
object.
A Tempfile
object has a finalizer to remove the temporary file. This means that the temporary file is removed via GC
. This can cause several problems:
Long GC
intervals and conservative GC
can accumulate temporary files that are not removed.
Temporary files are not removed if Ruby exits abnormally (such as SIGKILL, SEGV).
There are legacy good practices for Tempfile.new
and Tempfile.open
as follows.
When a Tempfile
object is garbage collected, or when the Ruby interpreter exits, its associated temporary file is automatically deleted. This means that itâs unnecessary to explicitly delete a Tempfile
after use, though itâs a good practice to do so: not explicitly deleting unused Tempfiles can potentially leave behind a large number of temp files on the filesystem until theyâre garbage collected. The existence of these temp files can make it harder to determine a new Tempfile
filename.
Therefore, one should always call unlink
or close in an ensure block, like this:
file = Tempfile.new('foo') begin ensure file.close file.unlink end
Tempfile.create
{ ⦠} exists for this purpose and is more convenient to use. Note that Tempfile.create
returns a File
instance instead of a Tempfile
, which also avoids the overhead and complications of delegation.
Tempfile.create('foo') do |file| endUnlink after creation¶ ↑
On POSIX systems, itâs possible to unlink a file right after creating it, and before closing it. This removes the filesystem entry without closing the file handle, so it ensures that only the processes that already had the file handle open can access the fileâs contents. Itâs strongly recommended that you do this if you do not want any other processes to be able to read from or write to the Tempfile
, and you do not need to know the Tempfileâs filename either.
Also, this guarantees the temporary file is removed even if Ruby exits abnormally. The OS reclaims the storage for the temporary file when the file is closed or the Ruby process exits (normally or abnormally).
For example, a practical use case for unlink-after-creation would be this: you need a large byte buffer thatâs too large to comfortably fit in RAM, e.g. when youâre writing a web server and you want to buffer the clientâs file upload data.
âTempfile.create(anonymous: true)` supports this behavior. It also works on Windows.
Minor notes¶ ↑Tempfileâs filename picking method is both thread-safe and inter-process-safe: it guarantees that no other threads or processes will pick the same filename.
Tempfile
itself however may not be entirely thread-safe. If you access the same Tempfile
object from multiple threads then you should protect it with a mutex.
The version
def Tempfile.create(basename="", tmpdir=nil, mode: 0, anonymous: false, **options, &block) if anonymous create_anonymous(basename, tmpdir, mode: mode, **options, &block) else create_with_filename(basename, tmpdir, mode: mode, **options, &block) end end
Creates a file in the underlying file system; returns a new File object based on that file.
With no block given and no arguments, creates and returns file whose:
Class is File
(not Tempfile).
Directory is the system temporary directory (system-dependent).
Generated filename is unique in that directory.
Permissions are 0600
; see File Permissions.
Mode is 'w+'
(read/write mode, positioned at the end).
The temporary file removal depends on the keyword argument anonymous
and whether a block is given or not. See the description about the anonymous
keyword argument later.
Example:
f = Tempfile.create f.class f.path f.stat.mode.to_s(8) f.close File.exist?(f.path) File.unlink(f.path) File.exist?(f.path) Tempfile.create {|f| f.puts "foo" f.rewind f.read f.path File.exist?(f.path) } f = Tempfile.create(anonymous: true) f.path f.puts "foo" f.rewind f.read f.close Tempfile.create(anonymous: true) {|f| f.path f.puts "foo" f.rewind f.read }
The argument basename
, if given, may be one of the following:
A string: the generated filename begins with basename
:
Tempfile.create('foo')
An array of two strings [prefix, suffix]
: the generated filename begins with prefix
and ends with suffix
:
Tempfile.create(%w/foo .jpg/)
With arguments basename
and tmpdir
, the file is created in the directory tmpdir
:
Tempfile.create('foo', '.')
Keyword arguments mode
and options
are passed directly to the method File.open
:
The value given for mode
must be an integer and may be expressed as the logical OR of constants defined in File::Constants
.
For options
, see Open Options.
The keyword argument anonymous
specifies when the file is removed.
anonymous=false
(default) without a block: the file is not removed.
anonymous=false
(default) with a block: the file is removed after the block exits.
anonymous=true
without a block: the file is removed before returning.
anonymous=true
with a block: the file is removed before the block is called.
In the first case (anonymous=false
without a block), the file is not removed automatically. It should be explicitly closed. It can be used to rename to the desired filename. If the file is not needed, it should be explicitly removed.
The File#path
method of the created file object returns the temporary directory with a trailing slash when anonymous
is true.
When a block is given, it creates the file as described above, passes it to the block, and returns the blockâs value. Before the returning, the file object is closed and the underlying file is removed:
Tempfile.create {|file| file.path }
Implementation note:
The keyword argument +anonymous=true+ is implemented using FILE_SHARE_DELETE on Windows. O_TMPFILE is used on Linux.
Related: Tempfile.new
.
def initialize(basename="", tmpdir=nil, mode: 0, **options) warn "Tempfile.new doesn't call the given block.", uplevel: 1 if block_given? @unlinked = false @mode = mode|File::RDWR|File::CREAT|File::EXCL tmpfile = nil ::Dir::Tmpname.create(basename, tmpdir, **options) do |tmpname, n, opts| opts[:perm] = 0600 tmpfile = File.open(tmpname, @mode, **opts) @opts = opts.freeze end super(tmpfile) @finalizer_manager = FinalizerManager.new(__getobj__.path) @finalizer_manager.register(self, __getobj__) end
Creates a file in the underlying file system; returns a new Tempfile object based on that file.
If possible, consider instead using Tempfile.create
, which:
Avoids the performance cost of delegation, incurred when Tempfile.new
calls its superclass DelegateClass(File)
.
Does not rely on a finalizer to close and unlink the file, which can be unreliable.
Creates and returns file whose:
Class is Tempfile (not File, as in Tempfile.create
).
Directory is the system temporary directory (system-dependent).
Generated filename is unique in that directory.
Permissions are 0600
; see File Permissions.
Mode is 'w+'
(read/write mode, positioned at the end).
The underlying file is removed when the Tempfile object dies and is reclaimed by the garbage collector.
Example:
f = Tempfile.new f.class f.path f.stat.mode.to_s(8) File.exist?(f.path) File.unlink(f.path) File.exist?(f.path)
Argument basename
, if given, may be one of:
A string: the generated filename begins with basename
:
Tempfile.new('foo')
An array of two strings [prefix, suffix]
: the generated filename begins with prefix
and ends with suffix
:
Tempfile.new(%w/foo .jpg/)
With arguments basename
and tmpdir
, the file is created in directory tmpdir
:
Tempfile.new('foo', '.')
Keyword arguments mode
and options
are passed directly to method File.open
:
The value given with mode
must be an integer, and may be expressed as the logical OR of constants defined in File::Constants
.
For options
, see Open Options.
Related: Tempfile.create
.
Calls superclass method
Sourcedef open(*args, **kw) tempfile = new(*args, **kw) if block_given? begin yield(tempfile) ensure tempfile.close end else tempfile end end
Creates a new Tempfile
.
This method is not recommended and exists mostly for backward compatibility. Please use Tempfile.create
instead, which avoids the cost of delegation, does not rely on a finalizer, and also unlinks the file when given a block.
Tempfile.open
is still appropriate if you need the Tempfile
to be unlinked by a finalizer and you cannot explicitly know where in the program the Tempfile
can be unlinked safely.
If no block is given, this is a synonym for Tempfile.new
.
If a block is given, then a Tempfile
object will be constructed, and the block is run with the Tempfile
object as argument. The Tempfile
object will be automatically closed after the block terminates. However, the file will not be unlinked and needs to be manually unlinked with Tempfile#close!
or Tempfile#unlink
. The finalizer will try to unlink but should not be relied upon as it can keep the file on the disk much longer than intended. For instance, on CRuby, finalizers can be delayed due to conservative stack scanning and references left in unused memory.
The call returns the value of the block.
In any case, all arguments (*args
) will be passed to Tempfile.new
.
Tempfile.open('foo', '/home/temp') do |f| end f = Tempfile.open('foo', '/home/temp') begin ensure f.close endPrivate Class Methods Source
def create_anonymous(basename="", tmpdir=nil, mode: 0, **options, &block) tmpfile = nil tmpdir = Dir.tmpdir() if tmpdir.nil? if defined?(File::TMPFILE) begin tmpfile = File.open(tmpdir, File::RDWR | File::TMPFILE, 0600) rescue Errno::EISDIR, Errno::ENOENT, Errno::EOPNOTSUPP end end if tmpfile.nil? mode |= File::SHARE_DELETE | File::BINARY tmpfile = create_with_filename(basename, tmpdir, mode: mode, **options) File.unlink(tmpfile.path) tmppath = tmpfile.path end path = File.join(tmpdir, '') unless tmppath == path tmpfile.autoclose = false tmpfile = File.new(tmpfile.fileno, mode: File::RDWR, path: path) PathAttr.set_path(tmpfile, path) if defined?(PathAttr) end if block begin yield tmpfile ensure tmpfile.close end else tmpfile end endSource
def create_with_filename(basename="", tmpdir=nil, mode: 0, **options) tmpfile = nil Dir::Tmpname.create(basename, tmpdir, **options) do |tmpname, n, opts| mode |= File::RDWR|File::CREAT|File::EXCL opts[:perm] = 0600 tmpfile = File.open(tmpname, mode, **opts) end if block_given? begin yield tmpfile ensure unless tmpfile.closed? if File.identical?(tmpfile, tmpfile.path) unlinked = File.unlink tmpfile.path rescue nil end tmpfile.close end unless unlinked begin File.unlink tmpfile.path rescue Errno::ENOENT end end end else tmpfile end endPublic Instance Methods Source
def close(unlink_now=false) _close unlink if unlink_now end
Closes the file. If unlink_now
is true, then the file will be unlinked (deleted) after closing. Of course, you can choose to later call unlink
if you do not unlink it now.
If you donât explicitly unlink the temporary file, the removal will be delayed until the object is finalized.
Sourcedef close! close(true) end
Closes and unlinks (deletes) the file. Has the same effect as called close(true)
.
def open _close mode = @mode & ~(File::CREAT|File::EXCL) __setobj__(File.open(__getobj__.path, mode, **@opts)) @finalizer_manager.register(self, __getobj__) __getobj__ end
Opens or reopens the file with mode âr+â.
Sourcedef path @unlinked ? nil : __getobj__.path end
Returns the full path name of the temporary file. This will be nil if unlink
has been called.
def size if !__getobj__.closed? __getobj__.size else File.size(__getobj__.path) end end
Returns the size of the temporary file. As a side effect, the IO
buffer is flushed before determining the size.
def unlink return if @unlinked begin File.unlink(__getobj__.path) rescue Errno::ENOENT rescue Errno::EACCES return end @finalizer_manager.unlinked = true @unlinked = true end
Unlinks (deletes) the file from the filesystem. One should always unlink the file after using it, as is explained in the âExplicit closeâ good practice section in the Tempfile
overview:
file = Tempfile.new('foo') begin ensure file.close file.unlink endUnlink-before-close¶ ↑
On POSIX systems itâs possible to unlink a file before closing it. This practice is explained in detail in the Tempfile
overview (section âUnlink after creationâ); please refer there for more information.
However, unlink-before-close may not be supported on non-POSIX operating systems. Microsoft Windows is the most notable case: unlinking a non-closed file will result in an error, which this method will silently ignore. If you want to practice unlink-before-close whenever possible, then you should write code like this:
file = Tempfile.new('foo') file.unlink begin ensure file.close! end
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