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Subject: Re: Thumbs up for suppressable exceptions in JDK 1.7
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Daniel Pitts schrieb:
> I want to read up on it, but I wonder if it will help with this
> (unfortunate) situation:
>
> try {
>     buggyCodeThrowsNullPointerException();
> } catch (Exception oopsThisWasIgnoredByLazyProgrammer) {
>     throw new BusinessLayerSpecificException(
>          "Unable to process request for no good reason.");
> }

I would eventually do the following:

try {
      buggyCodeThrowsNullPointerException();
} catch (Exception oopsThisWasIgnoredByLazyProgrammer) {
      throw new BusinessLayerSpecificException(
           "Unable to process request for no good reason.",
           oopsThisWasIgnoredByLazyProgrammer);
}

So use the cause of an exception for piggybacking
the reason. This is a kind of a competing mechanism
to supression.

Bye