Java, executing a method when object's scope ends

Question

I\'ve an object with a certain state. The object is passed around and it\'s state is temporarly altered. Something like:

public void doSomething(MyObject obj) {
         


        

Answer 1

Nope, there's no such thing. The closest is probably a try/finally block:

try
{
    obj.changeState(...);
    obj.use();
}
finally
{
    obj.loadState();
}

This ensures that loadState() gets called even when an Exception is thrown or there's an early return.