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Niall Pemberton commented on LANG-967:
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Providing a utility class encourages it IMO and as I said before, its a
potential bomb for any new errors. If people want to shoot themselves by
writing this type of code then fine, I think commons should avoid this.
"An Error is a subclass of Throwable that indicates serious problems that a
reasonable application should not try to catch."
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Error.html
> Code should never catch and ignore all Throwables
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: LANG-967
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-967
> Project: Commons Lang
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Sebb
> Fix For: Patch Needed
>
>
> Code should never catch and ignore all Throwables - ThreadDeath and
> VirtualMachineError must be rethrown.
> It would be useful to provide a method to enforce this behaviour.
> For example,. as is done by the Tomcat method \[1] with source here \[2]
> Sample usage:
> {code}
> try {
> reader.close();
> } catch (Throwable u) {
> ExceptionUtils.handleThrowable(u);
> }
> {code}
> \[1] org.apache.tomcat.util.ExceptionUtils#handleThrowable()
> \[2]
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/trunk/java/org/apache/tomcat/util/ExceptionUtils.java
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