Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: What to do with an exception of Field.get() Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:37:21 +0200 Organization: Decebal Computing Lines: 15 Message-ID: <87fv33fsa6.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="528adfd6ad074c92fdc6a7f8fb9e23d8"; logging-data="21927"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+wWopnkZ7YHzEo2HI+w8BN9KcE8iE1PzE=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:buoC4gt/KJbKHM2k8geZT0aEShI= sha1:803ZCO7oenglw5dx3OutHFxS2x8= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:32434 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? -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof