com.google.common.io
Class Flushables

java.lang.Object
  com.google.common.io.Flushables

public final class Flushables
extends Object

Utility methods for working with Flushable objects.

Since:

2009.09.15 tentative

Author:

Michael Lancaster

Method Summary

static void	flush(Flushable flushable, boolean swallowIOException) Flush a Flushable, with control over whether an IOException may be thrown.
static void	flushQuietly(Flushable flushable) Equivalent to calling flush(flushable, true), but with no IOException in the signature.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

flush

public static void flush(Flushable flushable,
                         boolean swallowIOException)
                  throws IOException

Flush a Flushable, with control over whether an IOException may be thrown.

If swallowIOException is true, then we don't rethrow IOException, but merely log it.

Parameters:

flushable - the Flushable object to be flushed.

swallowIOException - if true, don't propagate IO exceptions thrown by the flush method

Throws:

IOException - if swallowIOException is false and Flushable.flush() throws an IOException.

See Also:

Closeables.close(java.io.Closeable, boolean)

flushQuietly

public static void flushQuietly(Flushable flushable)

Equivalent to calling flush(flushable, true), but with no IOException in the signature.

Parameters:

flushable - the Flushable object to be flushed.