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Provide Common Temporary Directory
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Description
I've been repeating this pattern across several test projects:
const tmpWorkDir = path.join(process.cwd(), 'tmp', 'build', 'data-sources')
fs.mkdirSync(tmpWorkDir, { recursive: true })
const filePath = path.join(tmpWorkDir, `${name}-data-source.js`)
That's useful whenever a user wants to write generated files to disk and use it in conjunction with TerraformAsset.
It would be nice to have something like:
const tmpFile = new TmpFile(this, 'my-file', {
content: `my file contents`
})
new TerraformAsset(this, 'data-source-asset', {
path: tmpFile.path,
type: AssetType.FILE,
});
// or perhaps even just like this
new TmpFile(this, 'my-file', {
content: `my file contents`
distributeAs: AssetType.FILE
})
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Sounds interesting!
Just a random idea: Why not extending TerraformAsset (or composing with it in some other way), so that the TmpFile itself would "be the Asset". Or is there any use case to just writing the TmpFile?
How I would imagine using it:
const tmpFile = new TmpFile(this, 'file', {
content: `<html><body>Welcome to my empty website</body></html>`
})
new S3BucketObject(this, "index", {
bucket: bucket.bucket,
key: 'index.html',
source: tmpFile.path,
});
Why not extending TerraformAsset (or composing with it in some other way), so that the TmpFile itself would "be the Asset".
I think that would make sense indeed 👍
Perhaps it's more something like GeneratedFile or FileGenerator?
@skorfmann @ansgarm can you guys plz explain little bit more about this issue. I am interested in working on it.
