FilterOutputStream.close() throws exception from flush()

[Alex Lam S.L.]

It sounds very reasonable when you put it that way ;-)

I was thinking along the lines of when flush() fails - clearly you
can't flush a stream when it is closed - then it should throw an
IOException. =

Either way - I will sleep some more on my code and work around this in JDK8.

Thank you and Alan for all the good advices!


Regards,
Alex.



On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Rémi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
> On 02/10/2012 02:52 PM, Alex Lam S.L. wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Thanks for the pointer - I wasn't able to trace back to that email for
>> some reasons.
>>
>> The problem is that:
>>
>>  - flush() is reporting IOException because underlying stream is closed
>>  - close() is then forwarding that IOException now in JavaSE 8
>>
>> I guess my question is: what is the best way to check and avoid the
>> case where OutputStream is already closed?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alex.
>
>
> In my opinion, flush() should not throw an exception when the stream is
> closed.
> close() doesn't throw an exception in that case and close() should be able
> to call flush().
>
> Rémi
>