01: /* Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
02: * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
03: * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
04: * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
05: * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
06: * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
07: *
08: * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
09: *
10: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12: * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14: * limitations under the License.
15: */
16:
17: package java.io;
18:
19: /**
20: * Closeable represents the source or destination of some data which can be
21: * called its close method to release resources it holds.
22: */
23: public interface Closeable {
24:
25: /**
26: * Close the object and release any system resources it holds. If the object
27: * has been close, then invoke this method has no effect.
28: *
29: * @throws IOException
30: * if any error raises when closing the object.
31: */
32: public void close() throws IOException;
33: }
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