001    // Copyright 2005 The Apache Software Foundation
002    //
003    // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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014    
015    package org.apache.hivemind.util;
016    
017    import java.io.IOException;
018    import 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     */
026    public 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    }