Re: Holy boop: goto for Java
Daniel Pitts wrote:
Lew wrote:
public void processResources(String ... resourceNames)
{
for (String name : resourceNames)
{
BufferedReader br;
try
{
br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(name));
FWIW, this is a potential resource leak (think OOM on the "new
BufferedReader")
OOM is not a resource leak, it's a program crash.
I generally don't handle 'Error's. (Except when I do.)
If the OOM happens here as you suggest, well, what Leif said.
}
catch(FileNotFoundException exc)
{
logger.error("Cannot find "+ name, exc);
continue;
}
assert br != null; // and is valid
br is never assigned null, you could make br final. I think it *should*
be final.
Yes. Actually, in real code with this idiom I do make it final. Good catch.
try
{
doSomething(br);
}
finally
{
try
{
br.close();
}
catch(IOException exc)
{
logger.error("Cannot close "+ name, exc);
continue;
}
}
reportComplete(name);
}
}
(Not using try-with-resources here, in order to illustrate the idiom.)
Hmm, a failure to close causes a resource processing not to be complete?
You read too much into the method names.
It's a pattern. I do not claim the names and all are useful in real life, only for pedagogy.
Use better names if these make you twitch.
--
Lew
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