Re: Which exception to use here?
Stefan Ram a ?crit :
What would be a good (runtime-)exception class from the
standard library meaning ?For reasons I do not understand,
a called submethod failed, and now I can't do my job.?
For example, method ?m? calls ?div?, and ?div? might throw
a checked exception named ?DivisionByZero?.
The client of ?m? does not even know at all that ?m? does a
division, so he should not get this exception, it would make
no sense to him. Therefore, one would like to repack it into
a (runttime-)exception that is intended to /make/ sense for
m's client, but one also believes that this exception will
never be thrown in the first place (and if it happens:
indicate a programmer error, not a runtime failure in the
sense of a harddisk device failure or so). So:
What would be a good class to use instead of
?WhatToUseHereException? below?
public void m()
{ ...
if( y != 0 )
{ try
{ q = div( x, y ); }
catch( final DivisionByZero divisionByZero )
{ throw new WhatToUseHereException( divisionByZero ); }}
... }
I believe, a runtime exception is more appropriate here than
a checked exception, but do not know which specific runtime
exception is best.
In previous projects, I simply used RuntimeException for these cases
(wrapping the original one). In my last toy project, I decided to go for
a more specific custom runtime exception named
ShouldNeverHappenException (still wrapping the original one).
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