Golang afero

Afero defines and implements an interface to access the filesystem.
You can then pass in an abstraction of real os calls, or a stub stub interface you can make assertions against.

Documentation

github

https://github.com/spf13/afero

Usage

Basics

appfs := afero.NewOsFs()     // real 'os' calls
appfs := afero.NewMemMapFs() // memory backed fake filesystem
// there are several additional options, like sftp, CopyOnWriteFs, ...

appfs.Create("/var/tmp/foo.txt') // either creates on disk, or in memory

There are no assertions, when testing use the API to check the presence/contents of the file.