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package org.apache.poi.util;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Interface for creating temporary files. Collects them all into one directory by default.
 */
public final class TempFile {
    /** The strategy used by {@link #createTempFile(String, String)} to create the temporary files. */
    private static TempFileCreationStrategy strategy = new DefaultTempFileCreationStrategy();

    /** Define a constant for this property as it is sometimes mistypes as "tempdir" otherwise */
    public static final String JAVA_IO_TMPDIR = "java.io.tmpdir";
    
    private TempFile() {
        // no instances of this class
    }

    /**
     * Configures the strategy used by {@link #createTempFile(String, String)} to create the temporary files.
     *
     * @param strategy The new strategy to be used to create the temporary files.
     * 
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException When the given strategy is null.
     */
    public static void setTempFileCreationStrategy(TempFileCreationStrategy strategy) {
        if (strategy == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("strategy == null");
        }
        TempFile.strategy = strategy;
    }
    
    /**
     * Creates a new and empty temporary file. By default, files are collected into one directory and are
     * deleted on exit from the VM, although they can be kept by defining the system property
     * poi.keep.tmp.files (see {@link DefaultTempFileCreationStrategy}).
     * 
     * Don't forget to close all files or it might not be possible to delete them.
     *
     * @param prefix The prefix to be used to generate the name of the temporary file.
     * @param suffix The suffix to be used to generate the name of the temporary file.
     * 
     * @return The path to the newly created and empty temporary file.
     * 
     * @throws IOException If no temporary file could be created.
     */
    public static File createTempFile(String prefix, String suffix) throws IOException {
        return strategy.createTempFile(prefix, suffix);
    }
    
    public static File createTempDirectory(String name) throws IOException {
        return strategy.createTempDirectory(name);
    }
}