Is it safe to use Apache commons-io IOUtils.closeQuietly?

Question

Is this code

    BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(\"test.txt\"));
    try {
        bw.write(\"test\");
    } finally {
        IOUtils         


        

Answer 1

It is safe so long as your application doesn't care whether the write succeeded without error. If your application needs to handle write errors it is not safe as buffered data flushed on close may be lost and the error swallowed.