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Niall Pemberton commented on IO-249:
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@Joerg - I like the fact that Commons IO has no dependencies - that and with
the popularity of things like SLF4J I really wouldn't want to add
commons-logging as a dependency. Also with the introduction of the
java.io.Closeable interface in JDK 1.5 then there is now only the need for one
closeQueitly() method, rather than all the flavours Commons IO has - so anyone
who wants their own custom impl - for example using their preferred logging
framework - can easily do so.
@Paul - even though I disagreed with this for compatibility reasons - I
actually don't like the proposal and would oppose it anyway. It just seems
wrong to *return* an exception rather than throwing it, it encourages people to
write strange code and the benefit diminishes since instead of replacing 4
lines with 1 line, you're now replacing 4 lines with 3:
So instead of having:
{code}
try {
input.close();
} catch (Exception ex) {
// do something here
}
{code}
You now have:
{code}
IOException ex = IOUtils.close(input);
if (ex != null) {
// do something here
}
{code}
IMO users would be better off doing it the traditional way with a try/catch
rather than this
> Enhance closeQuietly to indicate success
> ----------------------------------------
>
> 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
> Fix For: 2.x
>
>
> 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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