Fixed Extending XF\Util\File is difficult

Kirby

Well-known member
Affected version
2.2.10
Is some scenarios I'd need temp files to be created in a different directory than the default and cleaned up automatically.

XF\Util\File provides almost everything needed to achieve that - except it doesn't allow to override the directory.

It would be relatively easy to override getTempDir in a child class and use that instead of the original, but unfortunately all methods seem to use self - so the overriding method would not get called.

So the only options (that I can see) would be to tinker with the config (which seems hacky) - or literally copy a whole buch of methods from the base class so overriding method getTempDir does get called.

Unless there is a compelling reason not to do so, could all those self be changed to static?

That would make things a lot easier (in my usecase).
 

XF Bug Bot

XenForo bug fixer bot
Staff member
Thank you for reporting this issue, it has now been resolved. We are aiming to include any changes that have been made in a future XF release (2.2.12).

Change log:
Use late static binding in utility classes to make them easier to extend
There may be a delay before changes are rolled out to the XenForo Community.
 
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