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Socket being closed by try with resources

I'm trying to write some simple socket code that has the following basic form - 

try(BufferedReader request = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(sock.getInputStream()))){
//Do some work...
}
//BufferedReader gets closed, but also makes the socket close
...
...
response.write(blah);//Causes exception because socket is closed

My problem is that the socket is being closed, but I don't think it should be. The try-with-resources creates a BufferedReader and then auto-closes it when I leave the try block, but for some reason it also closes the entire socket! So when I get to my response code later on that uses the same socket I get an exception. Is there any way to fix this? Or do I just have to not use a try-with-resources (which would be less than ideal)?

Solution

  • BufferedReader.close() closes the backing stream.

    The way to work around is a "wrapping" stream that doesn't propagate the close()