[External] : Re: A new build and a new structured concurrency API

[Kasper Nielsen]

>
>
> If the language is changed to make AutoCloseable more flexible, this
> requirement
> might be removed.
>
> — Ron


Adding something like

default close(Throwable cause) {
  close();
}

to AutoClosable would also be beneficial for people working with
databases. Right now a lot of transactional code looks like this:

try (Transaction transaction = Transaction.start()) {
   ... do transactional work
   transaction.commit();
} catch (Throwable e) {
  transaction.rollback();
}

Which could be reduced to

try (Transaction transaction = Transaction.start()) {
   ... do transactional work
 }

If the Transaction instance could be notified that it was closed
exceptionally.

/Kasper