Re: different try-finally approach
In article <h567u2$b46$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
mccleary.b@folderol.cs.uhtx.edu says...>
If there's more than one resource, the latter form to be exception safe
has to be nested several times, each one in the previous one's try
block. The former form, on the other hand, avoids all this nesting and
deep indentation becoming:
public void doSomething() throws MyResourceException
{
MyResource foo = null;
AnotherResource bar = null;
Quuxulator baz = null;
try
{
foo = new MyResource();
bar = ...;
// do something
baz = ...;
// do some more
}
finally
{
if (foo != null) foo.close()
if (bar != null) bar.close()
if (baz != null) baz.close()
}
}
Well, I see this is handy but I don't think this a good programming
practice. This way several blocks of processing are bundled together.
As well, close() itself is not very safe, as Mike suggested.
I would do this:
public void doSomething() throws MyResourceException
{
MyResource foo = new MyResource();
try
{
// ...
processAnotherResource();
}
finally
{
foo.close()
}
}
public void processAnotherResource() throws MyResourceException
{
AnotherResource bar = new AnotherResource ();
try
{
// ...
}
finally
{
bar.close()
}
}
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