Dominic: That is -extremely- bad and buggy code. NEVER use that, ever.
The problem is this:
If the try block does NOT throw an exception, but the close method
DOES, then you should not swallow that exception like closeDontThrow()
supposedly does. Remember, some outputstreams buffer; odds are that no
actual I/O takes place until you call the close() method!
It's acceptable to swallow *INPUTSTREAM*'s close method's IOException,
not so much because you can safely ignore that exception, but more
because it never gets thrown anyway, so its a moot point. Rethrowing
as a RuntimeException (throw new RuntimeException(e)) is a wiser plan,
though.
The only 'right' way to do it, without ARM or closures, is:
try {
boolean swallowClose = false;
InputStream stream = getStream();
try {
//do stuff here
} catch ( IOException e ) {
swallowClose = true;
throw e;
} finally {
try {
stream.close();
} catch ( IOException e ) {
if ( !swallowClose ) throw e;
}
}
} catch ( IOException e ) {
//THIS is where you should handle I/O issues!
}
a handful, isn't it? And can you believe some people are against the
ARM proposal? I say those people clearly hate life and adore
boilerplate.
with arm, that would become:
try ( InputStream stream = getStream() ) {
//do stuff here
} catch ( IOException e ) {
//Handle Exceptions here
}
On Jun 3, 8:30 am, Dominic Mitchell <d...@happygiraffe.net> wrote:
> On 3 Jun 2009, at 03:55, Christian Catchpole wrote:
>
>
>
> > Yeah, this can be a problem. Perhaps the neatest way is to do
> > something like this.. use a static helper which eats the exception.
>
> > OutputStream os = new BlahOutputStream();
> > try {
> > // do stuff hyar, hyar and hyar..
> > os.write( stuff );
> > } finally {
> > StreamHelperThingy.closeDontThrow(os);
> > }
>
> Most code I've seen uses commons-io's IOUtils.closeQuietly() to do this…
>
> http://commons.apache.org/io/api-1.4/org/apache/commons/io/IOUtils.html
>
> -Dom
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