Functions called in a finallize

[kikotores]

Im doing a program that connects to a database and I want to put
disconnect function in the finalize method in the class that does the
communication to the database. Is that a good idea ( seems like this
'destructor' does not work. Any good ideas how to do that?

 

[Thomas Hawtin]

Im doing a program that connects to a database and I want to put
disconnect function in the finalize method in the class that does the
communication to the database. Is that a good idea ( seems like this
'destructor' does not work. Any good ideas how to do that?

Finalisers are not destructors. They don't get called until sometime
after the garbage collector happens to find them. They are generally
useful for the implementation of resources that attempt to clean up even
if the client code is broken.

Instead use try/finally as:

Connection connection = getConnection();
try {
...
} finally {
connection.close();
}

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Tom Hawtin