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Re: Catching mulitple Exceptions in JDK 1.7

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Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> writes:

> On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 23:54:34 -0700 (PDT), Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>>In fact, if you only want to handle the IOException-ness of the exception, =
>>you wouldn't even bother mentioning 'SQLException' at all.  You'd just 'cat=
>>ch(IOException...)'. =20

> Here is a better example to illustrate my question:
> catch (IllegalArgumentException|IOException ex)

I think we understood your original question.

> What is the compile-time type of ex?
..
> What is the run-time type of ex if you got an IOException ?
..
> Or is there a rule that catch (a | b ex ) requires a to be a subclass
> of b, which would neatly sidestep the problem, but then the feature
> would not do anything useful.

That restriction wouldn't make any sense. If a extends b, there's no
point in catch (a|b) since you could do exactly the same with just
catch (b).

I haven't studied how it is handled, but I *suppose* the compile-time
type is the most specific Throwable that both a and b are subtype of
(probably in most cases Exception or some subclass of it). But of course
it wouldn't catch other subtypes that aren't either a or b or some
subtype of one of them.

And at runtime the JVM should know the exact type and you should be able
to ask it with instanceof like anywhere else, like I suggested in my
earlier followup.

if (ex instanceof Foo) {
   Foo bar = (Foo) ex;
   ...
}

But if you need to do that, you should't catch multiple types with
the same catch.

-- 
Jukka Lahtinen

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Catching mulitple Exceptions in JDK 1.7 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-07-29 09:14 -0700
  Re: Catching mulitple Exceptions in JDK 1.7 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-07-29 09:18 -0700
    Re: Catching mulitple Exceptions in JDK 1.7 markspace <-@.> - 2011-07-29 09:28 -0700
  Re: Catching mulitple Exceptions in JDK 1.7 Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2011-07-31 10:48 +0300
    Re: Catching mulitple Exceptions in JDK 1.7 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-01 23:54 -0700
      Re: Catching mulitple Exceptions in JDK 1.7 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-02 06:56 -0700
        Re: Catching mulitple Exceptions in JDK 1.7 Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-02 14:07 -0700
          Re: Catching mulitple Exceptions in JDK 1.7 supercalifragilisticexpialadiamaticonormalizeringelimatisticantations <supercalifragilisticexpialadiamaticonormalizeringelimatisticantations@averylongandannoyingdomainname.com> - 2011-08-03 23:31 -0400
            Re: Catching mulitple Exceptions in JDK 1.7 Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-03 21:03 -0700
          Re: Catching mulitple Exceptions in JDK 1.7 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-08-05 19:02 -0400
            Re: Catching mulitple Exceptions in JDK 1.7 Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-06 09:45 -0700
        Re: Catching mulitple Exceptions in JDK 1.7 Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2011-08-03 00:11 +0300

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