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From: Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
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Subject: Re: What to do with an exception of Field.get()
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 16:22:15 +0200
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On Friday 28 Aug 2015 15:37 CEST, Cecil Westerhof wrote:

> I am using:
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/Field.html#get%28java.lang.Object%29
>
> This can throw an IllegalArgumentException, or an
> IllegalAccessException.
>
> I see this as an unacceptable error and I am thinking about giving a
> stacktrace and exiting the program.
>
> Is this acceptable, or is it not done?

Answering my own question. ;-)

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.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof