Class Flushables

corpus/java/training/guava/io/Flushables.java:31–76

Utility methods for working with Flushable objects. @author Michael Lancaster @since 1.0

 * @since 1.0
 */
@Beta
@GwtIncompatible
public final class Flushables {
  private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(Flushables.class.getName());

  private Flushables() {}

  /**
   * Flush a {@link Flushable}, with control over whether an {@code IOException} may be thrown.
   *
   * <p>If {@code swallowIOException} is true, then we don't rethrow {@code IOException}, but merely
   * log it.
   *
   * @param flushable the {@code Flushable} object to be flushed.
   * @param swallowIOException if true, don't propagate IO exceptions thrown by the {@code flush}
   *     method
   * @throws IOException if {@code swallowIOException} is false and {@link Flushable#flush} throws
   *     an {@code IOException}.
   * @see Closeables#close
   */
  public static void flush(Flushable flushable, boolean swallowIOException) throws IOException {
    try {
      flushable.flush();
    } catch (IOException e) {
      if (swallowIOException) {
        logger.log(Level.WARNING, "IOException thrown while flushing Flushable.", e);
      } else {
        throw e;
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Equivalent to calling {@code flush(flushable, true)}, but with no {@code IOException} in the
   * signature.
   *
   * @param flushable the {@code Flushable} object to be flushed.
   */
  public static void flushQuietly(Flushable flushable) {
    try {
      flush(flushable, true);
    } catch (IOException e) {
      logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "IOException should not have been thrown.", e);
    }
  }
}