Throw checked exceptions

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Carven picture Carven · Jun 10, 2011 · Viewed 13.8k times · Source

A few of my methods in Java throw exceptions such as NoSuchElementException, IllegalArgumentException, etc. But when using these methods, these exceptions appear to be unchecked. In other words, caller of my methods is not required to do a try/catch on my methods that throw those exceptions. I read around it seems that Exceptions by default are "checked" and only Errors are the ones "unchecked". But somehow, the exceptions I throw are also unchecked. It is weird.

How can I ensure that when my method throws an exception, the caller MUST catch the exception at compile time? Simply said, how can I throw a checked exception?

Thanks!

Answer

cHao picture cHao · Jun 10, 2011

Only RuntimeException and its subclasses are unchecked. (Well, Error and its subclasses are as well, but you shouldn't be messing with Errors.) All you need to do to throw a checked exception is ensure that it doesn't extend RuntimeException.

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