On Thu, 2016-09-01 at 12:10 -0400, Dan Quaroni wrote:
> I'm writing a utility that will retrieve some metadata about swf (flash)
> files and I'd like to use httpclient to read the data but I want clarity on
> the necessity to read the entire stream.
>
> The information I need is all in the first few bytes of the file, and the
> files could potentially be quite large so I don't want to read them in
> their entirety. I'd like to just read what I need and then close the
> connection.
>
> Here's a little test snippet, note that SWFInfo is closing the input stream
> on the response entity:
>
> public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
>
> CloseableHttpClient client = buildCloseableClient();
> HttpGet get = new HttpGet("http://localhost/Cat.swf";);
> for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
> try (CloseableHttpResponse response = client.execute(get)) {
> SWFInfo info =
> SWFInfo.getInfo(response.getEntity().getContent());
> System.out.println(i + ": " + info.width + "," +
> info.height);
> }
> }
> }
>
>
> This test executes successfully, suggesting that it's OK but I want to
> double check that I won't be causing any types of resource usage problems.
> Note that we're using HttpClient in other parts of our application, but
> those are pooled connections that are constructed differently.
>
>
Hi Dan
Your code looks OK to me. As long as one closes CloseableHttpResponse
there should be no resource leaks.
Oleg
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
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