Another possibility would be to utilize FileSystem.delete() from Hadoop: http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystem.html
This class seems to be present in current dependency hadoop-core in profile hadoop1 or hadoop-common in profile hadoop2. Jarcec On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 11:24:05PM +0100, Dave Beech wrote: > In a few places now in MRUnit we're creating temp files / directories as > part of testing (e.g. dist cache testing, MockMapredOutputFormat). > > These will obviously need to be cleaned up as part of the test execution. > But, from experience I've found deleting files/folders from Java to be > pretty unreliable (especially if folders are not empty), so usually I'd use > commons-io FileUtils.forceDelete() to get the job done. > > I'd really like to be able to use this method in MRUnit, but adding a new > dependency to the POM for one method just seems.... wrong. > > I don't know what's worse. Adding the dependency, or re-implementing some > file deletion code that's already been done "properly" elsewhere. > > What's your opinion? > > Thanks, > Dave
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