It is optional if close() is not able to throw a checked exception. However, if close() can, then a checked exception would need to handled in a normal fashion, either with a catch block, or by throwing from the method that try-with-resources block is in. More details are in JLS 14.2.3 14.20.3.2. Extended try-with-resources A … Read more
Idempotent means that you can apply the operation a number of times, but the resulting state of one call will be indistinguishable from the resulting state of multiple calls. In short, it is safe to call the method multiple times. Effectively the second and third (and so on) calls will have no visible effect on … Read more
Try with resources can be used with multiple resources by declaring them all in the try block and this feature introduced in java 7 not in java 8 If you have multiple you can give like below try ( java.util.zip.ZipFile zf = new java.util.zip.ZipFile(zipFileName); java.io.BufferedWriter writer = java.nio.file.Files.newBufferedWriter(outputFilePath, charset) ) { // Enumerate each entry … Read more
Try with resources can be used with multiple resources by declaring them all in the parenthesis. See the documentation Relevant code excerpt from the linked documentation: public static void writeToFileZipFileContents(String zipFileName, String outputFileName) throws java.io.IOException { java.nio.charset.Charset charset = java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.US_ASCII; java.nio.file.Path outputFilePath = java.nio.file.Paths.get(outputFileName); // Open zip file and create output file with // try-with-resources … Read more
The Java Language Specification specifies that it is closed only if non-null, in section 14.20.3. try-with-resources: A resource is closed only if it initialized to a non-null value. This can actually be useful, when a resource might present sometimes, and absent others. For example, say you might or might not have a closeable proxy to … Read more