ITemporaryRepos

Defines the public contract for the TemporaryRepos class, exposing temporary folder lifecycle, path generation, and file cleanup operations used during linelist preparation.

Lifecycle

EnsureReady #

Prepare the repository so that file operations can be performed

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Public Sub EnsureReady()

Readiness and cleanup.

Reset #

Clear the repository contents and mark it as uninitialised

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Public Sub Reset()

Paths

RootPath #

Active repository root folder

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Public Property Get RootPath() As String

Path accessors and generation.

Returns: String. Fully-qualified absolute path.

CreateFilePath #

Generate a sanitised file path within the repository

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Public Function CreateFilePath(ByVal fileName As String) As String

Parameters:

fileName: String. Requested file name.

Returns: String. Fully-qualified path.

File Operations

DeleteFile #

Remove a single file from the repository if it exists

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Public Sub DeleteFile(ByVal path As String)

Deletion utilities.

Parameters:

path: String. Absolute file path.

DeleteAll #

Remove every file created within the repository

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Public Sub DeleteAll()