Is it okay to use try catch inside finally?
- by Hiral Lakdavala
Hi,
I am using a buffered writer and my code, closes the writer in the finally block. My code is like this.
...........
BufferedWriter theBufferedWriter = null;
try{
theBufferedWriter =.....
....
......
.....
} catch (IOException anException) {
....
} finally {
try {
theBufferedWriter.close();
} catch (IOException anException) {
anException.printStackTrace();
}
}
I have to use the try catch inside the clean up code in finally as theBufferedWriter might also throw an IOException. I do not want to throw this exception to the calling methos. Is it a good practice to use a try catch in finally? If not what is the alternative? Please suggest.
Regards,
Hiral
