[MAPREDUCE-6431] JobClient should be an AutoClosable

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.9.0, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Haibo Chen
• Reporter: André Kelpe
• Created: 10/Jul/15 14:32
• Updated: 30/Aug/16 01:16
• Resolved: 28/Jan/16 01:15

Description

Since the new target version if Java is 7, it would be great if JobClient could implement the java.lang.AutoClosable interface, so that it can be used in try-with-ressource statements. See here: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/tryResourceClose.html