Java resource closing
- by Bob
Hi,
I'm writing an app that connect to a website and read one line from it. I do it like this:
try{
URLConnection connection = new URL("www.example.com").openConnection();
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
String response = rd.readLine();
rd.close();
}catch (Exception e) {
//exception handling
}
Is it good? I mean, I close the BufferedReader in the last line, but I do not close the InputStreamReader. Should I create a standalone InputStreamReader from the connection.getInputStream, and a BufferedReader from the standalone InputStreamReader, than close all the two readers?
I think it will be better to place the closing methods in the finally block like this:
InputStreamReader isr = null;
BufferedReader br = null;
try{
URLConnection connection = new URL("www.example.com").openConnection();
isr = new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream());
br = new BufferedReader(isr);
String response = br.readLine();
}catch (Exception e) {
//exception handling
}finally{
br.close();
isr.close();
}
But it is ugly, because the closing methods can throw exception, so I have to handle or throw it.
Which solution is better? Or what would be the best solution?
