Hi,

I think I am missing something very obvious…

For unit tests I want a std.stdio.File object that is backed by an in memory string buffer rather than an actual file on disc, be it temporary or otherwise.  I think I am missing where this is documented in the documentation. Or is it actually not available?

Thanks.

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On 05/28/2013 05:04 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think I am missing something very obvious…
>
> For unit tests I want a std.stdio.File object that is backed by an in
> memory string buffer rather than an actual file on disc, be it temporary
> or otherwise.  I think I am missing where this is documented in the
> documentation. Or is it actually not available?
>
> Thanks.
>
This is only available for std.stream http://dlang.org/phobos/std_stream.html#.MemoryStream.

On 5/28/2013 8:04 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think I am missing something very obvious…
>
> For unit tests I want a std.stdio.File object that is backed by an in
> memory string buffer rather than an actual file on disc, be it temporary
> or otherwise.  I think I am missing where this is documented in the
> documentation. Or is it actually not available?

Part of the idea of using ranges is you can switch to a memory buffer instead of an actual file.

On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 19:51 +0200, Martin Nowak wrote: […]
> This is only available for std.stream http://dlang.org/phobos/std_stream.html#.MemoryStream.

This package has a big red "deprecated" notice, so I didn't look at it. Is this an indication that I should? Is there a planned replacement?
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Am 29.05.2013 06:48, schrieb Russel Winder:
> On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 19:51 +0200, Martin Nowak wrote:
> […]
>> This is only available for std.stream
>> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_stream.html#.MemoryStream.
>
> This package has a big red "deprecated" notice, so I didn't look at it.
> Is this an indication that I should? Is there a planned replacement?
>

Actually I am also making heavy use of it, as I am porting to D a Java
based application that uses streams.

Relying on std.stream makes the porting easier, but I am also wondering about it.

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On 05/29/2013 06:48 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> Is there a planned replacement?
We want to have a range based replacement, but it's nowhere near in sight.