Some Errors aren't worth catching, though. Actually, most of them. Maybe it is worth catching VerifyError explicitly?
On 10 July 2014 22:53, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think catching Throwable is fine. It is better for the user if all > Errors here are trapped and handled IMO. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 2014/07/11, at 11:48, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Or should we catch Exception and VerifyError, but not Throwable? > > Gary > > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:26 PM, <mattsic...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Author: mattsicker >> Date: Fri Jul 11 01:26:18 2014 >> New Revision: 1609602 >> >> URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1609602 >> Log: >> Catch Throwable here to handle VerifyError. >> >> Modified: >> >> logging/log4j/log4j2/trunk/log4j-core/src/main/java/org/apache/logging/log4j/core/lookup/Interpolator.java >> >> Modified: >> logging/log4j/log4j2/trunk/log4j-core/src/main/java/org/apache/logging/log4j/core/lookup/Interpolator.java >> URL: >> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/logging/log4j/log4j2/trunk/log4j-core/src/main/java/org/apache/logging/log4j/core/lookup/Interpolator.java?rev=1609602&r1=1609601&r2=1609602&view=diff >> >> ============================================================================== >> --- >> logging/log4j/log4j2/trunk/log4j-core/src/main/java/org/apache/logging/log4j/core/lookup/Interpolator.java >> (original) >> +++ >> logging/log4j/log4j2/trunk/log4j-core/src/main/java/org/apache/logging/log4j/core/lookup/Interpolator.java >> Fri Jul 11 01:26:18 2014 >> @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ public class Interpolator implements Str >> lookups.put("env", new EnvironmentLookup()); >> try { >> lookups.put("jndi", new JndiLookup()); >> - } catch (Exception e) { >> + } catch (Throwable e) { >> // [LOG4J2-703] We might be on Android >> // java.lang.VerifyError: >> org/apache/logging/log4j/core/lookup/JndiLookup >> LOGGER.warn( >> >> >> > > > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition > <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
