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eBugs in Cloud Systems updated CASSANDRA-15115:
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    Description: 
Dear Cassandra developers, we are developing a tool to detect exception-related 
bugs in Java. Our prototype has spotted the following {{throw}} statement whose 
exception class and error message seem to indicate different error conditions.

 

Version: Cassandra-3.11 (commit: 123113f7b887370a248669ee0db6fdf13df0146e) 

File: 
CASSANDRA-ROOT/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/WindowsFailedSnapshotTracker.java

Line: 98
{code:java}
throw new RuntimeException(String.format("Failed to create failed snapshot 
tracking file [%s]. Aborting", TODELETEFILE));{code}
 

{{RuntimeException}} is usually used to represent errors in the program logic 
(think of one of its subclasses, {{NullPointerException}}), while the error 
message indicates that {{deleteOldSnapshots()}} failed to create a file. This 
mismatch could be a problem. For example, the callers may miss the possibility 
that {{deleteOldSnapshots()}} can fail to create a file because it does not 
throw any {{IOException}}. Or, the callers trying to handle other 
{{RuntimeException}} may accidentally (and incorrectly) handle the file 
creation failure.

  was:
Dear Cassandra developers, we are developing a tool to detect exception-related 
bugs in Java. Our prototype has spotted the following {{throw}} statement whose 
exception class and error message seem to indicate different error conditions.

 

Version: Cassandra-3.11 (commit: 123113f7b887370a248669ee0db6fdf13df0146e) 

File: 
CASSANDRA-ROOT/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/WindowsFailedSnapshotTracker.java

Line: 98
{code:java}
throw new RuntimeException(String.format("Failed to create failed snapshot 
tracking file [%s]. Aborting", TODELETEFILE));{code}
 

{{RuntimeException}} is usually used to represent errors in the program logic 
(think of one of its subclasses, {{NullPointerException}}), while the error 
message indicates that {{deleteOldSnapshots()}} failed to create a file. Will 
this mismatch be a problem? For example, the callers may miss the possibility 
that {{deleteOldSnapshots()}} can fail to create a file because it does not 
throw any {{IOException}}. Or, the callers trying to handle other 
{{RuntimeException}} may accidentally (and incorrectly) handle the file 
creation failure.


> WindowsFailedSnapshotTracker.deleteOldSnapshots() throws RuntimeException 
> when it failed to create a file
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>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-15115
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15115
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: eBugs in Cloud Systems
>            Priority: Normal
>
> Dear Cassandra developers, we are developing a tool to detect 
> exception-related bugs in Java. Our prototype has spotted the following 
> {{throw}} statement whose exception class and error message seem to indicate 
> different error conditions.
>  
> Version: Cassandra-3.11 (commit: 123113f7b887370a248669ee0db6fdf13df0146e) 
> File: 
> CASSANDRA-ROOT/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/WindowsFailedSnapshotTracker.java
> Line: 98
> {code:java}
> throw new RuntimeException(String.format("Failed to create failed snapshot 
> tracking file [%s]. Aborting", TODELETEFILE));{code}
>  
> {{RuntimeException}} is usually used to represent errors in the program logic 
> (think of one of its subclasses, {{NullPointerException}}), while the error 
> message indicates that {{deleteOldSnapshots()}} failed to create a file. This 
> mismatch could be a problem. For example, the callers may miss the 
> possibility that {{deleteOldSnapshots()}} can fail to create a file because 
> it does not throw any {{IOException}}. Or, the callers trying to handle other 
> {{RuntimeException}} may accidentally (and incorrectly) handle the file 
> creation failure.



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