Dear core-libs-devs,
I was playing around with streams and onClose and ran into an example with
odd behavior (well, I found it odd, see example below). I was wondering if
you could point me to prior discussions on semantics of intermediate
operations and the semantics of Stream.onClose.
A bit of code so we have something concrete to discuss:
import java.util.stream.Stream;
public class Example {
public static void main(String[] args) {
final Stream<String> foo = Stream.of("1", "2", "3");
final Stream<String> bar = foo.onClose(() ->
System.out.println("Closing bar"));
try (final Stream<String> s = foo) {
s.forEach(System.out::println);
}
}
}
When I run the program above I get:
1
2
3
Closing bar
Hmm, the onClose call mutated foo. This is surprising to me as when I read
[1] it says onClose is an intermediate operation and I quote: "Returns an
equivalent stream with an additional close handler.". The documentation
does not mention that the stream passed to onClose is mutated. Is this the
intended behavior or is it a bug? I hope it is a bug, but I would like to
understand the reasons for the current implementation.
[1]
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/stream/BaseStream.html#onClose-java.lang.Runnable-
Carsten
