Do I need to handle or ignore the IOException raised by the OutputStream close () function?

Question

In the following code, the close function for outPutStream throws an IOException, which I must catch. My question is do I need to handle this? Since I work with mobile devices, I want to make sure that I free up all the resources that I use, or whether I can safely ignore the exception.

//...
OutputStream output = null;
try {
     output = connection.getOutputStream();
     output.write(query.getBytes(charset));
} finally {
     if (output != null) try { 
        output.close(); 
     } catch (IOException e) {
        // Do i need to do something here ?
     }
}

Answer 1

If closing does not work, what can you do?

The only thing you can do is just to throw an exception, and since @mprabhat suggested you set the link to null to speed up the GC.

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