Hey guys, You can implement Closable without the checked exception. Having close() methods throw checked exceptions isn't very useful unless there is a way for the caller to recover. In this case there really isn't, right?
-Jay On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Folks, > > In a recent commit I made regarding KAFKA-2121, there is an omitted API > change which makes Serializer / Deserializer extending from Closeable, > whose close() call could throw IOException by declaration. Hence now some > scenario like: > > --------------------- > > Serializer<T> keySerializer = ... > Serializer<T> valueSerializer = ... > KafkaProducer producer = new KafkaProducer(config, keySerializer, > valueSerializer) > // ... > keySerializer.close() > valueSerializer.close() > > --------------------- > > will need to capture IOException now. > > Want to bring this up for people's attention, and you opinion on whether we > should revert this change? > > -- Guozhang >