Re: Detecting 'socket errors' - closing the Connection object

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:18:28AM -0400, Dmitry Tkach wrote:
> >
> >
> >Unfortunately the isClosed() javadoc is fairly explicit in saying you can't
> >use it for this:
> >
> > Retrieves whether this Connection object has been closed. A connection is
> > closed if the method close has been called on it or if certain fatal
> > errors
> > have occurred.
> >
> Hmmm.... To me this phrase sounds like exactly what he was asking for...
> Perhaps, it would then make sense to make isClosed() return false if the
> socket goes south...
> I think that situation very well qualifies as a 'certain fatal error'
> after all...
>
> >This method is guaranteed to return true only when it is
> > called after the method Connection.close has been called.
> >
> >
> This is weird.... direct contradiction with the previous sentense isn't
> it? :-)

No, it's just saying you can't rely on detecting errors via isClosed(). You
might see a spontaneous close after an error, but it's not *guaranteed* --
only close() is guaranteed to cause isClosed() to return true.

The next paragraph, which you trimmed, clarifies that:

This method generally cannot be called to determine whether a
connection to a database is valid or invalid. A typical client can determine
that a connection is invalid by catching any exceptions that might be thrown
when an operation is attempted.

-O