Tinkering with your project causes interesting side effects.
In short, practicing TDD will save you from yourself but that is a post for another day.
Yesterday I was having some unexpected behavior when I was displaying my server to some people.
My server kept loading, when before it didn’t.
My server would go to most directories and files, But a few specific ones it would not bring up at all until I manually ended the server.
Lastly, when I tried to go into other directories that didn’t exist or I shouldn’t have access to, it would stay loading.
I found my mistake..
try (Socket socket = server.accept()) {
//stuff }
In this example, the server.accept() is doing more than just trying.
Here it is trying and closing at the same time since it is located in the try statement.
I moved it down to here:
try {
Socket socket = server.accept()
//stuff
}
This is not the same!
I thought it would be, but it is not!
This was the cause of all those problems above.
What I forgot to do if i placed the accept() call in the try box was to close it.
```java
finally{
Socket.close
//along with the streams as well
}
When I added this code in here it got rid of all of my problems!
It is good to tinker but make sure you have tests to protect you!
Best,
Merl