Clean up uploaded files when session ends

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Clean up uploaded files when session ends #2

Closed karawoo closed 5 years ago

karawoo commented 5 years ago

Otherwise they will hang around on the server.

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Sample code to remove files on session end

karawoo commented 5 years ago

Note: I currently don't have permissions on our shiny server to delete contents of directories within /tmp/

larssono commented 5 years ago

is it possible to create temporary files that delete themselves? In Python, depending on which type of tmp file you create they either hang around or get deleted when you close the file pointer.

karawoo commented 5 years ago

This is already implemented by shiny (after the links above were written): https://github.com/rstudio/shiny/blob/c332c051f33fe325f6c2e75426daaabb6366d50a/R/fileupload.R#L129-L138