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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: it's Closeable, but I don't want to close() it yet.
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 09:38:13 -0000 (UTC)
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Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> wrote:
> On 2019-03-01 10:31, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
>>    private static void helper2(Context ctx) {
>>        Entity ent = ctx.getEnt();
>>        if (ent instanceof EntityImpl) {
>>           // the following line gets tagged by eclipse:
>>           //  "Resource leak: 'entImp' is never closed"
>>           EntityImpl entImp = (EntityImpl)ent;
>>           entImp.b();
>>        }
>>     }
>> }
> Colour me agnostic, but that warning seems absolutely ridiculous to me.
> Are you sure that's the cause of it? Could EntityImpl#b perhaps be doing
> something funky?

I did provide the implementation of b() in my posting. It was an SSCCE.
(Reminder: It was empty, except for a /* ... */ comment.)