When an exception is thrown within the body of a try statement, the catch clauses of the try statement are examined in the order in which they appear. The first catch clause that is capable of handling the exception that was thrown, is executed. The remaining catch clauses are ignored
There are two ways. The method can have a try catch block and handle the error/exception inside the method. Or The method can throw the exception under the assumption that the calling method would have the code to handle the exception that is thrown by this method
A try statement is used in conjunction with one or more catch blocks to provide exception handling. If an exception is thrown by a try block, the corresponding catch block will handle the exception. If no catch block is provided for a particular exception, then a runtime error occurs instead. Try-catch statements are used to provide graceful resolutions to potential runtime errors.
Some keywords have exception checking available, some don't. For example, the READ statement has AT END and INVALID KEY; the math keywords ADD, MULTIPLY, COMPUTE, etc. have ON OVERFLOW and so on to denote code to be executed when those exceptions are detected. You can also specify a field for a file to hold status codes which then can be interrogated after an input/output statement to determine particular exceptions (duplicate inserts, etc.).
Although try and catch provide a great way to trap and handle exceptions, we are left with the problem of how to clean up if an exception occurs. Because execution transfers out of the try block as soon as an exception is thrown, we can't put our cleanup code at the bottom of the try block and expect it to be executed if an exception occurs. Exception handlers are a poor place to clean up after the code in the try block because each handler then requires its own copy of the cleanup code. If, for example, you opened a database connection somewhere in the guarded region, each exception handler would have to release the connection. That would make it too easy to forget to do cleanup, and also lead to a lot of redundant code. If you forget to close the connection in cases where an exception occurs, you will be left with orphan connections which can eventually crash your database. To address this problem, Java offers the finally block. A finally block encloses code that is always executed at some point after the try block, whether an exception was thrown or not. Even if there is a return statement in the try block, the finally block executes right after the return statement is encountered, and before the return executes! This is the right place to close your files, release your db connections, and perform any other cleanup your code requires. If the try block executes with no exceptions, the finally block is executed immediately after the try block completes. If there was an exception thrown, the finally block executes immediately after the proper catch block completes. Let's look at another pseudocode example: 1: try { 2: // This is the first line of the "guarded region". 3: } 4: catch(DatabaseDownException) { 5: // Put code here that handles this exception 6: } 7: catch(SomeOtherException) { 8: // Put code here that handles this exception 9: } 10: finally { 11: // Put code here to release any resource we 12: // allocated in the try clause. 13: } 14: 15: // More code here As before, execution starts at the first line of the try block, line 2. If there are no exceptions thrown in the try block, execution transfers to line 11, the first line of the finally block. On the other hand, if a SomeOtherException is thrown while the code in the try block is executing, execution transfers to the first line of that exception handler, line 8 in the catch clause. After all the code in the catch clause is executed, the program moves to line 11, the first line of the finally clause. To summarize - THE FINALLY BLOCK WILL EXECUTE ALWAYS. There is actually a catch here about the finally block executing always, but I will leave you to ponder over it for sometime. We will look at it a little later.
There is no such thing as a runtime checking mechanism in C++. The compiler can only catch compile time errors. You must provide any additional checks yourself, to handle any exceptions that may occur at runtime. Failure to handle an exception results in an exception error at runtime. The end result is that the program crashes but, if debug information is available, you can easily locate the source of the exception and thus determine how best to provide a handler for it. But this mechanism is not handled by C++ itself, it is handled by the debugger.
The presence of the keywords "throws exception" on a method signature means that, the method may throw an exception whhich it does not handle. It also means that the method that is calling or invoking it has to handle such exceptions. If the calling method does not handle that exception it would have to in turn use the same "throws exception" clause and throw it to its parent method.
We use exception handling so that the program can gracefully handle any situation that may be unexpected. We use try-catch for exception handling. if-else is a conditional logic checking mechanism
Because you can and you should, unless you want your program to crash if an exception occurs.
Exception handling is largely the same for both. The only real difference is that C++ has no 'finally' clause which always executes whether an exception occurs or not. Another difference is that Java throws exceptions and errors, but errors cannot be handled since programs cannot handle errors -- such as the JVM out of memory error.
There are two ways. The method can have a try catch block and handle the error/exception inside the method. Or The method can throw the exception under the assumption that the calling method would have the code to handle the exception that is thrown by this method
With multiple catch clauses, one for each exception that may be thrown.
A try statement is used in conjunction with one or more catch blocks to provide exception handling. If an exception is thrown by a try block, the corresponding catch block will handle the exception. If no catch block is provided for a particular exception, then a runtime error occurs instead. Try-catch statements are used to provide graceful resolutions to potential runtime errors.
Some keywords have exception checking available, some don't. For example, the READ statement has AT END and INVALID KEY; the math keywords ADD, MULTIPLY, COMPUTE, etc. have ON OVERFLOW and so on to denote code to be executed when those exceptions are detected. You can also specify a field for a file to hold status codes which then can be interrogated after an input/output statement to determine particular exceptions (duplicate inserts, etc.).
throws keyword/statement is basically used to handle exception in java. throws keyword is used to handle "unchecked exceptions". Example: public void enterdata()throws IOException { BufferedReader inp=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); int i=Integer.parseInt(inp.readLine()); } Now after the enterdata function we have used throws keyword because the"readLine" method throws an unchecked exception ie., IOException during user input which cannot be handled by try catch block.
Exceptions in ADA are declared much like any other variable before the begin statement of a procedure. When raised they excecute the code that is written between the EXCEPTION and END *PROCEDURENAME* lines. Example as follows: PROCEDURE Foo IS FirstException : Exception; A : Integer := 1; BEGIN IF A = 1 THEN RAISE FirstException; END IF; Put("This won't be executed until after the "woopdeedoo" because of the exception"); EXCEPTION WHEN FirstException => Put("Woopdeedoo"); END Foo;
To handle the exceptions in large programs
Although try and catch provide a great way to trap and handle exceptions, we are left with the problem of how to clean up if an exception occurs. Because execution transfers out of the try block as soon as an exception is thrown, we can't put our cleanup code at the bottom of the try block and expect it to be executed if an exception occurs. Exception handlers are a poor place to clean up after the code in the try block because each handler then requires its own copy of the cleanup code. If, for example, you opened a database connection somewhere in the guarded region, each exception handler would have to release the connection. That would make it too easy to forget to do cleanup, and also lead to a lot of redundant code. If you forget to close the connection in cases where an exception occurs, you will be left with orphan connections which can eventually crash your database. To address this problem, Java offers the finally block. A finally block encloses code that is always executed at some point after the try block, whether an exception was thrown or not. Even if there is a return statement in the try block, the finally block executes right after the return statement is encountered, and before the return executes! This is the right place to close your files, release your db connections, and perform any other cleanup your code requires. If the try block executes with no exceptions, the finally block is executed immediately after the try block completes. If there was an exception thrown, the finally block executes immediately after the proper catch block completes. Let's look at another pseudocode example: 1: try { 2: // This is the first line of the "guarded region". 3: } 4: catch(DatabaseDownException) { 5: // Put code here that handles this exception 6: } 7: catch(SomeOtherException) { 8: // Put code here that handles this exception 9: } 10: finally { 11: // Put code here to release any resource we 12: // allocated in the try clause. 13: } 14: 15: // More code here As before, execution starts at the first line of the try block, line 2. If there are no exceptions thrown in the try block, execution transfers to line 11, the first line of the finally block. On the other hand, if a SomeOtherException is thrown while the code in the try block is executing, execution transfers to the first line of that exception handler, line 8 in the catch clause. After all the code in the catch clause is executed, the program moves to line 11, the first line of the finally clause. To summarize - THE FINALLY BLOCK WILL EXECUTE ALWAYS. There is actually a catch here about the finally block executing always, but I will leave you to ponder over it for sometime. We will look at it a little later.