Re: different try-finally approach

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Pitch <mail@fake.info>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Tue, 4 Aug 2009 23:47:20 +0200

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In article <h59cv1$tq6$1@news.albasani.net>, noone@lewscanon.com says

  public void doSomething()
      // throws [MyResource|App]Exception
  {
   final MyResource res;
   try
   {
     res = new MyResource();
   }
   catch ( MyResourceException exc )
   {
     logger.error( exc );
     return; // or throw exc or new AppException(exc)
   }
   assert res != null;

   try
   {
     // do something with res
   }
   finally
   {
     res.close()
   }
  }

This implies res is not going to get null in the last try-block. I think
this is a real possibility if more programmers work on the code so you'd
still need if != null

No, 'res' is guaranteed not to be null.

What about this:

    assert res != null;

    try
    {
      // do something with res
      res = null;
    }
    finally
    {
      res.close()
    }

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