> The Google App Engine SDK uses checked exceptions on many of its API > methods. In many cases, I want to catch these exceptions and do > something Clojure-friendly with them. With Clojure 1.2.x, I had no > trouble catching checked exceptions by type, e.g.: > > (try > (some-app-engine-api-methods-called-here ...) > (catch EntityNotFoundException ex ...)) > > This stopped working in 1.3.0. The caught exception does not match > EntityNotFoundException; it is now a RuntimeException with the > original typed exception chained to it. > > I don't fully understand the implications of the exception handling > changes in 1.3 (https://github.com/clojure/clojure/commit/ > 8fda34e4c77cac079b711da59d5fe49b74605553). Does it mean that all > exceptions coming in from Java code into Clojure will now be wrapped > in an extra RuntimeException?
Catching checked exceptions seems to work fine. Try e.g. (try (throw (java.io.IOException.)) (catch java.io.IOException _ "caught!")) I suspect something else is going wrong in the GAE example. Can you narrow the code down to a block you can quote in full here? Stu Stuart Halloway Clojure/core http://clojure.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
