17 exception handling - ii

Using try and catch
• If we handle error manually, it gives two benefits. First, it allows us
to fix the error. Second, it prevents the program from automatically
terminating.
class Exc2 {
public static void main(String args[]) {
int d, a;
try { // monitor a block of code.
d = 0;
a = 42 / d ;
System.out.println("This will not be printed.");
}
catch (ArithmeticException e) { // catch divide-by-zero error
System.out.println("Division by zero."); }
System.out.println("After catch statement."); } }
• This program generates the following output:
Division by zero.
After catch statement.

• In some cases, more than one exception could be raised by a
single piece of code. To handle this type of situation, we can
specify two or more catch clauses, each catching a different type
of exception.
• When an exception is thrown, each catch statement is inspected
in order, and the first one whose type matches that of the
exception is executed. After one catch statement executes, the
others are bypassed, and execution continues after the try/catch
block.
• The try statement can be nested. Each time a try statement is
entered, the context of that exception is pushed on the stack.
• If an inner try statement does not have a catch handler for a
particular exception, the stack is unwound and the next try
statement’s catch handlers are inspected for a match. If no catch
statement matches, then the Java run-time system will handle
the exception.

Displaying the description of the
Exception
• Throwable overrides the toString( ) method
(defined by Object) so that it returns a string
containing a description of the exception. You
can display this description in a println( )
statement by simply passing the exception as
an argument.for example.
catch (ArithmeticException e){
System.out.println("Exception: " + e);
}

Multiple catch clauses……………
• In some cases, more than one exception could be
raised by a single piece of code from the try block.
• you can specify two or more catch clauses, each
catching a different type of exception.
• When an exception is thrown, each catch statement is
inspected in order, and the first one whose type
matches that of the exception is executed.
• After one catch statement executes, the others are
bypassed, and execution continues after the try/catch
block.

// Demonstrate multiple catch statements.
class MultiCatch {
try {
int a = args.length;
System.out.println("a = " + a);
int b = 42 / a;
int c[] = { 1 };
c[42] = 99;
} catch(ArithmeticException e) {
System.out.println("Divide by 0: " + e);
} catch(ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
System.out.println("Array index oob: " + e);
}
System.out.println("After try/catch blocks.");
}
}

Output
C:>javac MultiCatch.java
C:>java MultiCatch
a = 0
Divide by 0: java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero
After try/catch blocks.
C:>java MultiCatch TestArg
a = 1
Array index
oob:java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
After try/catch blocks.

• When you use multiple catch statements, it is
important to remember that exception
subclasses must come before any of their
super classes. This is because a
• catch statement that uses a superclass will
catch exceptions of that type plus any of its
subclasses. Thus, a subclass would never be
reached if it came after its superclass.
• Further, in Java, unreachable code is an error.
For example, consider the following.

class SuperSubCatch {
try {
int a = 0;
int b = 42 / a;
} catch(Exception e) {
System.out.println("Generic Exception catch.");
}catch(ArithmeticException e) {
System.out.println("This is never reached.");
}
}
}
Since ArithmeticException is a subclass of Exception, the first catch
statement will handle all Exception-based errors, including
ArithmeticException. This means that the second catch statement will never
execute.

Nested try block……
• The try statement can be nested.
• That is, a try statement can be inside the block of another try.
Each time a try statement is entered, the context of that
exception is pushed on the stack.
• If an inner try statement does not have a catch handler for a
particular exception, the stack is unwound and the next try
statement’s catch handlers are inspected for a match.
• This continues until one of the catch statements succeeds, or
until all of the nested try statements are exhausted.
• If no catch statement matches, then the Java run-time system
will handle the exception.
• Here is an example that uses nested try statements:

class NestTry {
try {
int b = 42 / a;
try {
if(a==1) a = a/(a-a);
if(a==2) {
int c[] = { 1 };
c[42] = 99;
}
}
catch(ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
System.out.println("Array index out-of-bounds: " + e);
}
}
}
}

Output…
C:>javac NestTry
C:>java NestTry
C:>java NestTry One
a = 1
C:>java NestTry One Two
a = 2
Array index out-of-bounds:
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

Nested try catch within the method.
• Nesting of try statements can occur in less
obvious ways when method calls are involved.
• For example, you can enclose a call to a
method within a try block. Inside that method
is another try statement. In this case, the try
within the method is still nested inside the
outer try block, which calls the method.

class MethNestTry {
static void nesttry(int a) {
try { if(a==1) a = a/(a-a); // division by zero
if(a==2) {
int c[] = { 1 };
c[42] = 99; // generate an out-of-bounds exception
}
} catch(ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
System.out.println("Array index out-of-bounds: " + e);
}
}
try {
int b = 42 / a;
nesttry(a);
}}}

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