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Gary Gregory commented on IO-249:
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How about looking at this more generally? Should all "quiet" methods return a
Throwable?
> Enhance closeQuietly to indicate success
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> Key: IO-249
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-249
> Project: Commons IO
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Utilities
> Affects Versions: 2.0
> Reporter: Paul Benedict
> Assignee: Paul Benedict
> Priority: Minor
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> A convention of some programmers is to emit a log warning when a resource
> fails to close. Granted, such a condition is an error, but there's no
> reasonable recourse to the failure. Using IOUtils.closeQuietly() is very
> useful but all information about the success/failure is hidden. Returning
> Throwable will give insight into the error for diagnostic purposes. This
> change will be compatible with today's usage since the method currently
> returns void.
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