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Looking into try with resources, I've been wondering.
Should AsyncHttpClient implement AutoCloseable?
AutoCloseable interface only comes with java 1.7+, so that would break backwards compatibility for a small feature...
Should AsyncHttpClient implement Closeable?
Closeable is a subinterface of AutoCloseable and comes with java 1.5+, so compatibility should not be an issue. But this interface says:
void close() throws IOException
So we're breaking here the existing API (the current API doesn't throw any exception on close()).
- People should subclass AsyncHttpClient and implement one of these if they feel the need to?
- The "try with resource" statement doesn't play nicely with async?