Re: Java checked exceptions: how do i solve this?
"Joshua Cranmer" <Pidgeot18@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Joshua Cranmer wrote:
ennioennioennio@gmail.com wrote:
What can you suggest me about solution 1, 2 or 3?
Pick solution 1. Purge solutions 2 and 3 from your mind immediately. They
should not be used in any production code.
(Hit "Send" too quickly)
Java has, IMO, the best error-handling exception system out there. [*] The
notion of checked exceptions is perhaps its best feature--it forces
developers to actually properly handle errors where they might blithely be
ignored. In addition, checked exceptions makes the documentation of errors
a lot easer (quick: what error does Python throw if it tries to read from
a file that is on an NFS share that has been unmounted?).
[*] Well, some of the implementation is poor: the close() method of an IO
stream can throw an IOException, which makes handling resource clean up
painful.
It's a bit useless for InputStream.close() to throw an exception; if you're
done reading from the stream, you presumably don't care that you, say, lost
contact with an NFS mount. But if an OutputStream has been buffering output
that close() can't flush properly, how would you prefer to be notified of
that?
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