Re: More Finally

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.nospam>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:34:07 -0400
Message-ID:
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"Patricia Shanahan" <pats@acm.org> wrote in message

There is an alternative approach in which each variable is declared
outside a single try-catch-finally, with initial value null. In the
finally block there are multiple pieces of code of the form:

if(something != null){
  // clean up something
}


Mike Schilling wrote:

Unfortunately, each close method can also throw an exception, so there's no
guarantee they're all called. How to structure this depends on how an
exception thrown from close() should be handled (e.g. ignored, caught and
logged, or rethrown)


You can wrap the close() methods in a utility class method, e.g.,

public class Util
{
   public static void close( Connection c )
   {
     try
     {
       c.close();
     }
     catch ( SQLException e )
     {
       logger.warn( "Cannot close Connection: \""
                    + e.getSQLState() +"\". "+ e );
     }
   }
}

(This represents a log-and-ignore strategy.)

Then you use the utility methods in your finally{} cleanup block confident
that your close() Exceptions are handled.

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Lew

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