unreported exception IOException -- Yet I AM catching it?

[Agathorn]

Hey all, I'm an experienced programmer but new to Java. Decided to try writing a small utility in Java so it would be cross-platform without much extra work :)

I'm having some trouble though with some code that I pretty much pulled directly out of Sun's documentation.

    public void ListFolder()
    {
            DirectoryStream<Path> stream = null;
            try {
                stream = wFolder.newDirectoryStream();
                for (Path file: stream) 
                {
                    System.out.println(file.getName());
                }
            } catch (IOException e) {
                System.err.println(e);
            } finally {
                if (stream != null) stream.close();
            }
    }

The compiler keeps reporting "Unreported exception IOException; must be caught or declared to be thrown", yet that is exactly what I thought I was doing in the code above.

I am importing java.io.IOException

[mrmatt1111]

} finally {
    if (stream != null) stream.close();
}

I think you need to try/catch this. Closable throws IOException

[Agathorn]

Thank you very much mrmat1111

That does indeed seem to fix it. Gosh these try/catch blocks can get confusing! Makes me want to crawl back to C.

Anyway it works now. Wonder if there is a way to send a note to Sun that their docs are a bit off...