Re: Capturing an exception from a thread

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:11:21 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<d65a969b-8f3e-4993-a928-57ac2f2995d8@r16g2000vbn.googlegroups.com>
vtjava wrote:

I've created some test classes that creates an array of threads. In
some cases, a thread encounters an Exception and I'm not sure how to
report this exception back to the user. In my runnable class, I have a
setError() and getError() methods but i'm can't seem to access them
from the calling class. I tried using uncaughtException, but i haven't
been able to get it to work. Does know how to capture the exception?


There are a few ways.

<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/
Thread.html#setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler
(java.lang.Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler)>
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/
Executor.html>
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/
Future.html#get()>

One of the best ways is to write the task to catch its own exception
and set some state visible to the calling thread.

Brian Goetz's seminal /Java Concurrency in Practice/ covers these
techniques in detail.
<http://jcip.net/>

--
Lew

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