Should I use method close or closeQuietly to close an output stream?

Question

When we need close an output stream, we have two choices.

1. closeQuietly means close a stream with no exception throwing up.

   try {
       close(out)
   } catch(IOException e) {
   }
   

2. close

   try {
       close(out)
   } catch(IOException e) {
       throw anException;
   }
   

as known, output stream will write a/several chars into the end of file when closing, if these writing goes wrong, the file also can't be open correctly such as ZipoutputStream.

if I use the first one, I will get some risk of fail closing. if I use the second one, it will let my code unfriendly.

Could someone give me some advices?

So sorry for describing the issue unclearly.

I meant that how to get an IO operation safely. if a resource's release gets failed, it would let caller know.

Thanks for all your answer. And especially thank @Don Roby for giving me a link which contains the best answer answered by @Fabian Barney

Answer 1

Since Java 7 IOUtils.closeQuietly became outdated and the only reasonable solution is try-with-resources which closes resources automatically

try (InputStream is = new FileInputStream(file)) {
    ...
}

Note that it also solves problem with correctly opening / closing more than one resource

try (InputStream is = new FileInputStream(infile); OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(outfile)) {
   ...          
}

And it also does not suppress IOException that close() may throw, which is exactly what closeQuietly does.