On 6 February 2014 15:04, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:04 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 6 February 2014 13:53, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Looking at code like DiskFileItem:684: >> > >> > FileInputStream input = new FileInputStream(dfosFile); >> > IOUtils.copy(input, output); >> > >> > Why is this not: >> > >> > FileInputStream input = new FileInputStream(dfosFile); >> > try { >> > IOUtils.copy(input, output); >> > } finally { >> > input.close(); >> > } >> > >> > ? >> >> Oversight? >> >> The local Streams.copy() methods do close input and optionally output. >> Maybe it was thought IO did the same? >> >> The close should perhaps be >> >> IOUtils.closeQuietly() >> >> Are we interested in knowibg about input close() failures? >> > > Good question. I would guess 'yes'. If you write to a file and then cannot > close it, you might not have flushed it, so the file could be corrupt?
But this is an _input_ file. Are we interested in close failure once the copy has completed? > Gary > > >> >> > Gary >> > >> > >> > -- >> > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org >> > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition< >> http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >> > Home: http://garygregory.com/ >> > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > > > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second > Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org