Re: can't throw
On 9/11/2012 9:14 PM, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
On 9/11/2012 4:16 PM, bob smith wrote:
Am I the only one who wanted to throw an Exception but couldn't
because I was overriding
a method that threw nothing?
In particular, I'm subclassing Thread and can't throw an Exception in
the run method. I suspect this is a more general issue though.
You are not the first with that problem.
My take is:
* if the API is well designed the the intent must be that the class
is supposed to handle the problems and not throw an exception
at all, and you should follow that guideline
* if the API is not well designed and someone just forgot about
exceptions, then you must consider what is best:
- change the API with all the problems arising from that
- throw a runtime exception
Specifically about the Thread and run case: what would be
the point in throwing an exception? What code should do
something about it?
(well - I guess Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler can
be used, but it is not going to be pretty)
Arne
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