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Re: What to do with an exception of Field.get()

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From	Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
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Subject	Re: What to do with an exception of Field.get()
Date	Fri, 28 Aug 2015 16:57:13 +0200
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Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> writes:

>> In principle you never know where your function is used. (If you share
>> it.) So I wrote a custom exception (which gives a stacktrace). In this
>> way the user only has to check for one exception (it is used in Java
>> 6) and can decide what to do.
>
>     That seems the right approach.  If you haven't done so already,
> it's a good idea to propagate the original exception as the "cause"
> of the one eventually thrown:
>
> 	try {
> 	    ...
> 	} catch (IllegalArgumentException | IllegalAccessException ex) {
> 	    throw new WrapperException("Yikes!", ex);
> 	}

Catching exceptions of multiple types with one catch clause is only
supported as of Java 7, I think.

Bye,
Tassilo

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What to do with an exception of Field.get() Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-08-28 15:37 +0200
  Re: What to do with an exception of Field.get() Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-08-28 16:22 +0200
    Re: What to do with an exception of Field.get() Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-08-28 10:44 -0400
      Re: What to do with an exception of Field.get() Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> - 2015-08-28 16:57 +0200
    Re: What to do with an exception of Field.get() Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> - 2015-08-28 16:52 +0200

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