Try-with-resources: Must I throw or catch the close() method's exceptions? [duplicate]

Answer 1

From the Java tutorial

A try-with-resources statement can have catch and finally blocks just like an ordinary try statement. In a try-with-resources statement, any catch or finally block is run after the resources declared have been closed.

(emphasis mine)

So you can simply do

try (BufferedReader br =
               new BufferedReader(new FileReader(path))) {
    return br.readLine();
}
catch (IOException e) {
    // handle the exception that has been thrown by readLine() OR by close().
}