Re: different try-finally approach

From:
"Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 4 Aug 2009 00:31:24 -0700
Message-ID:
<h58oiv$h96$1@news.eternal-september.org>
Bill McCleary wrote:

Mike Schilling wrote:

Bill McCleary wrote:

Mike Schilling wrote:

public static void close(Closeable... c) throws IOException
{
    List<IOException> exceptions = new ArrayList<IOException>();
    for (Closeable cl : c)
    {
        try { cl.close()
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            exceptions.add(ex) }
    }
    if (exceptions.size() > 0)
        throw new WrappedIOException(exceptions);
}

Cute.

Why not

switch (exceptions.size()) {
  case 0: return;
  case 1: throw exceptions.get(0);
  case 2: throw new WrappedIOException(exceptions);
}


Cool. And you can also make the allocation of "exceptions" lazy if
that kind of optimization is important to you.


What? One teensy little ArrayList in what's invariably going to be
I/O
bound code? :)


That's my feeling too, but at some point, someone anal is going to
profile it and ask where all those empty ArrayLists came from :-)

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