On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:38 PM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 24 October 2013 01:16, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi All:
> >
> > I see a log of this pattern:
> >
> > try {
> > if (outputStream != null) {
> > outputStream.close();
> > }
> > } catch (final Exception e) {
> > Debug.debug(e);
> > }
> >
> > for example in org.apache.commons.imaging.Imaging:
> >
> > public static void writeImage(final BufferedImage src, final File
> file,
> > final ImageFormat format, final Map<String,Object> params)
> > throws ImageWriteException,
> > IOException {
> > OutputStream os = null;
> >
> > try {
> > os = new FileOutputStream(file);
> > os = new BufferedOutputStream(os);
> >
> > writeImage(src, os, format, params);
> > } finally {
> > try {
> > if (os != null) {
> > os.close();
> > }
> > } catch (final Exception e) {
> > Debug.debug(e);
> > }
> > }
> > }
> >
> > Which seems wrong to me. If I get an IOE while writing, we throw, but if
> we
> > get one when flushing and closing the file (which may also write), we
> > swallow it. Why? It seems the IOE from close should percolate up and not
> be
> > swallowed.
>
> I agree that's bad practice - not only because of swallowing the Exception.
> The catch block should catch IOException not Exception.
>
I do not think we should even catch the IOE, it should percolate up, just
like the writeImage call. Why not simply:
{
final OutputStream os = new BufferedOutputStream(new
FileOutputStream(file));
try {
writeImage(src, os, format, params);
} finally {
os.close();
}
}
Or if your are really paranoid:
{
OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(file);
try {
os = new BufferedOutputStream(os);
writeImage(src, os, format, params);
} finally {
os.close();
}
}
I'm looking for a pattern we can apply throughout [imaging] before 1.0.
Gary
> > All of this is moot in Java 7 with try-with-resources blocks but we are
> not
> > ready for Java 7 here I imagine.
> >
> > Gary
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