2 files changed, 84 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/util/src/org/aspectj/util/FileUtil.java b/util/src/org/aspectj/util/FileUtil.java
index d7892f6eb..3e5b9ee4c 100644
--- a/util/src/org/aspectj/util/FileUtil.java
+++ b/util/src/org/aspectj/util/FileUtil.java
@@ -13,10 +13,40 @@
 
 package org.aspectj.util;
 
-import java.io.*;
-import java.net.*;
-import java.util.*;
-import java.util.zip.*;
+import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.DataInputStream;
+import java.io.DataOutputStream;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileFilter;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.FileWriter;
+import java.io.FilenameFilter;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.PrintStream;
+import java.io.Reader;
+import java.io.StringReader;
+import java.io.Writer;
+import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.LinkedList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
+import java.util.zip.ZipFile;
+import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream;
+
+import junit.framework.AssertionFailedError;
 
 
 /**
@@ -1326,6 +1356,8 @@ public class FileUtil {
         }
     }
 
+	private static final String SANDBOX_NAME = "ajcSandbox";
+
     private FileUtil() { throw new Error("utility class"); }
 	
 	public static List makeClasspath(URL[] urls) {
@@ -1509,4 +1541,47 @@ public class FileUtil {
         }
     }
 
+	public static File createEmptySandbox() {
+		File sandbox;
+		
+		String os = System.getProperty("os.name");
+		File tempDir = null;
+		// AMC - I did this rather than use the JDK default as I hate having to go look
+		// in c:\documents and settings\......... for the results of a failed test.
+		if (os.startsWith("Windows")) {
+			tempDir = new File("C:\\temp");
+			if (!tempDir.exists()) {tempDir.mkdir();}
+		} else {
+		 	tempDir = new File("/tmp");
+		}
+		File sandboxRoot = new File(tempDir,SANDBOX_NAME);
+		if (!sandboxRoot.exists()) {
+			sandboxRoot.mkdir();
+		}
+	
+	
+		try {
+			File workspace = new File(".." + File.separator);
+			String workspaceName = workspace.getCanonicalPath();
+			int index = workspaceName.lastIndexOf(File.separator);
+			workspaceName = workspaceName.substring(index+1);
+	
+			File workspaceRoot = new File(sandboxRoot,workspaceName);
+			if (!workspaceRoot.exists()) {
+				workspaceRoot.mkdir();
+			}
+			
+			deleteContents(workspaceRoot);
+	
+			sandbox = File.createTempFile("ajcTest",".tmp",workspaceRoot);
+			sandbox.delete();
+			sandbox.mkdir();
+	
+		} catch (IOException ioEx) {
+			throw new AssertionFailedError("Unable to create sandbox directory for test");
+		}
+		
+		return sandbox;
+	}
+
 }
diff --git a/util/testsrc/org/aspectj/util/FileUtilTest.java b/util/testsrc/org/aspectj/util/FileUtilTest.java
index 23ac0e31f..1879abef7 100644
--- a/util/testsrc/org/aspectj/util/FileUtilTest.java
+++ b/util/testsrc/org/aspectj/util/FileUtilTest.java
@@ -706,5 +706,10 @@ public class FileUtilTest extends TestCase {
             assertTrue("written: " + pipe.totalWritten(), false);
         }
     }
+    
+    public void testCreateEmptySandbox () {
+    	File sandbox = FileUtil.createEmptySandbox();
+    	assertTrue("Sandbox does not exist",sandbox.exists());
+    }
 
 }