AutoCloseable XMLStreamReader and XMLStreamWriter? (original) (raw)

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Mon May 27 08:40:40 UTC 2013

On 26/05/2013 12:04, Philippe Marschall wrote:

Hi

It would be nice if javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader and javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamWriter could be made to extend java.lang.AutoCloseable so that they can be used in a try-with-resouces statement. The some does for XMLEventReader and XMLEventReader. I don't recall if this one has come up before (there were lots of candidates identified for retrofitting when AutoCloseable was added) but the XML APIs have the complication that they are a "Standalone Technology". I don't know how far back JSR-206/173 needs to be support but if you retrofit these interfaces to extend AutoCloseable then it would rule out usage with jdk6. Joe Wang might know about about this.

-Alan

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