ResourceResolver try-with-resources in AEM 6.2

[#1]

Based on the versions I've found, it should work but I just wanted to confirm if anyone has used/tested this with any luck, without leaving tons of sessions open all over the place.

According to SLING-4805[1], ResourceResolver should properly extend AutoCloseable[2] as of Sling API 2.11.0. And according to the bundle I'm seeing in my system console of my local AEM 6.2 instance, it's using Sling API 2.11.0. So I should be able to refactor all of our try-catch-finally resource resolver code to try-with-resources[3], yeah?

try (ResourceResolver resolver = resourceResolverFactory.getServiceResourceResolver(null)) { // do something with the resolver } catch (LoginException e) { // error handle }

Probably just being paranoid and second guessing myself, wondering if anyone else has tried this.

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-4805
[2] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/AutoCloseable.html
[3] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/language/try-with-resources.html

[#2]

Feike Visser wrote...

I like your way/suggestion.I think the main reason why it is not used much is because this requires Java 8.

Fair enough. We just recently finished upgrading all of our PROD servers to 1.8 and we're now in the process of refactoring code to take advantage of some of these new features.