On 26/05/2013 12:04, Philippe Marschall wrote:
Hi
It would be nice if javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader and
javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamWriter could be made to extend
java.lang.AutoCloseable so that they can be used in a
try-with-resouces statement. The some does for XMLEventReader and
XMLEventReader.
I don't recall if this one has come up before (there were lots of
candidates identified for retrofitting when AutoCloseable was added) but
the XML APIs have the complication that they are a "Standalone
Technology". I don't know how far back JSR-206/173 needs to be support
but if you retrofit these interfaces to extend AutoCloseable then it
would rule out usage with jdk6. Joe Wang might know about about this.
-Alan
