From bafcabf7cb87edb6f570da9126ca1a6735288368 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michel Jonathan Schmitz <michel.jonathan.schmitz@its.thm.de>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 10:36:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] test: create the empty test directory via code

---
 test/e2e.spec.ts         | 7 ++++++-
 test/emptyDir/.gitignore | 4 ----
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 test/emptyDir/.gitignore

diff --git a/test/e2e.spec.ts b/test/e2e.spec.ts
index 7cca2656..0dbe997d 100644
--- a/test/e2e.spec.ts
+++ b/test/e2e.spec.ts
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ import {
 import * as chai from 'chai';
 import * as chaiAsPromised from 'chai-as-promised';
 import * as chaiSpies from 'chai-spies';
+import {existsSync, mkdirSync} from 'fs';
 import {suite, test} from 'mocha-typescript';
+import {join} from 'path';
 import {getItemsFromSamples, indexSamples} from '../src/e2e';
 import {ApiError} from '../src/errors';
 import {HttpClient, RequestOptions, Response} from '../src/httpClient';
@@ -114,7 +116,10 @@ export class E2EConnectorSpec {
 
   @test
   async indexShouldFailDirectoryWithoutData() {
-    return indexSamples(httpClient, {to: 'http://localhost', samples: './test/emptyDir/'})
+    const emptyDirPath = join(__dirname, 'emptyDir');
+    if(!existsSync(emptyDirPath))
+      mkdirSync(emptyDirPath);
+    return indexSamples(httpClient, {to: 'http://localhost', samples: emptyDirPath})
     .should.be.rejectedWith('Could not index samples. None were retrived from the file system.');
   }
   
diff --git a/test/emptyDir/.gitignore b/test/emptyDir/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 86d0cb27..00000000
--- a/test/emptyDir/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-# Ignore everything in this directory
-*
-# Except this file
-!.gitignore
\ No newline at end of file