Discussion: easier Stream closing

[Tagir Valeev]

Hello, Brian! Thanks for your thoughts.

> The consumeAndClose approach is clever, in that it adds one API point that works for all streams, rather than having to add a new API point for every factory of a closeable stream; on the other hand, it is dramatically less discoverable, and so requires more education to get people to use it (and, as you say, has the exception problem.)

I think this could be solved via IDE/static analysis features. It
looks quite easy to statically rewrite the try-catch statement to
consumeAndClose. And, of course, static analyzers may recommend
consumeAndClose when no resource management is used at all on the
stream that is known to hold the resource.

I filed https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8274412 to move this forward.