HttpServer should implement AutoCloseable?

[David Alayachew]

Oh yes, using Closeable would be much better, ty vm.

On Wed, Nov 5, 2025, 5:32 AM Volkan Yazıcı <volkan at yazi.ci> wrote:

> Given `close()` involves performing I/O, I suggest implementing
> `Closeable` instead of `AutoCloseable`. Also note that `Closeable::close`
> is required to be idempotent, which fits our bill.
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM David Alayachew <davidalayachew at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello @core-libs-dev <core-libs-dev at openjdk.org>,
>>
>> Would it be ok if we made HttpServer from the jdk.httpserver module
>> implement AutoCloseable? Having this would prevent people from forgetting
>> to close the server after use.
>>
>> The close() implementation could call stop(int delay) with a reasonable
>> default. This implementation should be a default one, so that existing
>> child classes that also implemented AutoCloseable lose no functionality.
>>
>> Thank you for your time and consideration.
>> David Alayachew
>>
>
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