Re: Declaring RuntimeExceptions?

[Ingo Prötel]

Hi Sascha,

I think Classpath should also declare RuntimeExceptions if JDK does so.

If you do a getExceptionTypes() on java.lang.reflect.Method you will get
all declared Throwables. This includes RuntimeExceptions and Errors that
are declared to be thrown by a method (also for constructors).

So, to keep the runtime-behavoir of such objects consistent we need to
declare such Exceptions even if the compiler does require it.

--ingo

Sascha Brawer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> if the signature of a JDK method declares to throw some RuntimeException,
> should the Classpath do so, too?
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> For example, java.awt.Toolkit.createButton declares to throw
> java.awt.HeadlessException in the JDK, but not in Classpath.
> HeadlessException extends java.lang.RuntimeException.
>
> -- Sascha
>
> Sascha Brawer, address@hidden, http://www.dandelis.ch/people/brawer/ 
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