001// Copyright 2005 The Apache Software Foundation
002//
003// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
004// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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006//
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008//
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014
015package org.apache.hivemind.util;
016
017import java.io.IOException;
018import java.io.InputStream;
019
020/**
021 * Tiny utilities used with InputStream and friends.
022 * 
023 * @author Howard M. Lewis Ship
024 * @since 1.1
025 */
026public class IOUtils
027{
028    /**
029     * Closes the input stream, if not null. Eats any IOException.
030     */
031
032    public static void close(InputStream stream)
033    {
034        if (stream != null)
035            try
036            {
037                stream.close();
038            }
039            catch (IOException ex)
040            {
041                // Ignored.
042            }
043    }
044}