Re: handling exceptions
gaurav v bagga wrote:
hi all,
i am having few methods they all throw few common exceptions
method1 throws a,b,c
method 2 throws a,b,c
method3 throws a,b .......
can i some how make it throw only one exception which will take care
of res all others
like
method1 throws foo
method2 throws foo
and foo encapsulates all a,b,c
something like that possible..
a,b,c mainly i have are
SQLException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException,
ClassNotFoundException
regards
gaurav
You can do this by having foo extend Exception, but only use the
constructors that have a Throwable cause parameter.
However, it is desirable to make sure you provide enough granularity in
foo and it subclasses to allow reasonable try-catch structure. It looks
to me as though you have two major clusters of potential exceptions,
database problems and class management problem. I would put those in
separate subclasses of foo, so that a caller can catch them separately.
Patricia
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