[jdom-interest] File lockup with invalid did -- handle in SAXBuilder??

[Jason Long]

flush and close are methods of the Writer class not the file class.
Shouldn't this be handled in the SAXBuilder?

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Bartmess [mailto:dingodave at edingo.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 11:35 AM
To: Jason Long
Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] File lockup with invalid did


The code added below should do the trick...

On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 17:02, Jason Long wrote:
> I am using the following to read files.
>
>   public Document getJDOMFromFile(File file)
>       throws JDOMException,
>       NullPointerException, IOException {
>     Document docJDOM = null;
>     try {
>       SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
>       docJDOM = builder.build(file);
>     }
>     catch (JDOMException e) {
>       e.printStackTrace();
	file.flush();
	file.close();
>       throw new JDOMException("Broken JDOM", e);
>     }
>     catch (NullPointerException e) {
>       e.printStackTrace();
	file.flush();
	file.close();
>       throw new NullPointerException("Broken JDOM");
>     }
>     return docJDOM;
>   }
>
> The client needs to edit the dtd, and send it by ftp.
> The only thing defined in the dtd entities.
> When an entity is not defined an error is throw, but the file is then
> locked.
> How can I read in a file and release it if there are errors?
>
>
> Jason Long - CEO and Chief Software Engineer
> Supernova Software - supernovasoftware.com
> BS Physics, MS  Chemical Engineering
>
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