Exception‐Handling in object oriented programming

Exception Handling Fundamentals
‐
An exception is a problem that arises during the
execution of a program. When an Exception(un
wanted event) occurs the normal flow of the
program is disrupted and the program/Application
terminates abnormally.
Some of the reasons for an exception
• A user has entered an invalid data.
• A file that needs to be opened cannot be found.
• A network connection has been lost in the middle of
communications or the JVM has run out of memory.

If the exception Object is not Handled properly, the
interpreter will display the error and will terminate
the program.
It is highly recommended to handle exceptions
The main objective of exception handling is graceful
termination of program.
Exception handling doesn’t mean repairing an
exception we have to provide alternative way to
continue rest of the program normally is the
concept of exception handling .

exception handling can be managed by five
keywords:
1.try,
2. catch,
3.throw,
4.throws,
5.finally.

This is the general form of an exception-handling block
try
{
// block of code to monitor for errors
}
catch (ExceptionType1 exOb)
{ // exception handler for ExceptionType1
}
catch (ExceptionType2 exOb)
{ // exception handler for ExceptionType2
}
//……
finally
{ // block of code to be executed after try block ends
}

Uncaught Exceptions
Class Test
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
doStuff();
}
public static doStuff()
{
doMoreStuff();
}
public static doMoreStuff()
{ Java Runtime Stack
System.out.println(10/0);
}
}
doMoreStuff()
doStuff()
Main()

Steps to handle Uncaught Exceptions
1.Inside a method if any exception occurs the method in
which its raised is responsible to create exception object
by including the following information
1.name of exception
2.description of exception
3.location at which exception occurs(stack trace)
2.After creation of exception object method handovers
that object to the jvm.
3.Jvm will check whether the method contains any
exception handling code or not if the method doesn’t
contain exception handling code then jvm terminates
that method abnormally and removes corresponding
entry from the stack.

4. jvm identifies callers method and checks whether caller
method contains any handling code or not. If the caller
method doest contain handling code then jvm terminates
that caller method also abnormally and removes
corresponding entry from the stack this process will be
continued until the main method. if the main method also
doesn’t contain handling code then jvm terminates main
method also abnormally and removes corresponding entry
from the stack.
5.Then JVM handovers responsibility of exception handling to
default exception handler, which is the part of jvm.
6.Defaulty Exception Handler prints exception information in
the following format and terminates program abnormally.
Exception in thread in XXX : name of the exception:
Description: stack trace

Hierarchy of Exception classes

Exception
Most of the times exceptions are caused by our program and these are
recoverable.
Child classes for Exception
1.IOException
i.EOF Exception
ii.FileNotFoundException
iii.InteruptedIOException
2.SQLException
3.ServletExcetion
4.Runtime Exception
i. ArithmeticException
ii. NumberFormatException
iii. ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
iv.NullPointerException
5.RemoteException
6.Interuptedexception

Error
Most of the times errors are not caused by our
program and these are due to lack of system
resources. Errors are non recoverable.
Child classes for Error
1.VMError
i.StackOverFlowError
ii.OutOfMemoryError
2.AssertionError

Types of Exception
There are mainly two types of exceptions
1.Checked Exception
2.Unchecked Exception
Checked Exception:
The exceptions which are checked by compiler for smooth
execution of the program are called checked exception.
Example: FileNotFoundException, SQLException
In our program if there is chance of rising checked
exception then compulsory we should handle that
cheeked exception either by try, catch or throws key
word otherwise we will get compile time error.

Unchecked Exception
The exception which are not checked by compiler whether
programmer handling or not such type of exceptions are
called Unchecked Exception.
Example
ArithmeticException, NullPointerException,
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException etc.
Note :
1.Whether it is checked or unchecked exception that
occurs at runtime only there is no chance of occurring
any exception at compile time.
2.RuntimeException and its child classes, Error and its child
classes are unchecked except these reaming are
checked.

Exception Handling Using Try Catch
It is highly recommended to handle exceptions.
The code which may raise exception is called risky code and we have to
define that code inside the try block.
And the corresponding handling code we have to define inside the catch
block.
Syntax
Try
{
Risky code
}
Catch(Exception e)
{
Handling code;
}

Example with out Try catch
Class test
{
Public static void main(String args[])
{
System.out.println(“statement1”);
System.out.println(“statement3”);
}
}
Out Put:
Statement1
Exception:AE:divide by zero

Example with Try catch
Class test
{
{
System.out.println(“Before Exception ”);
try
{
}
Catch(ArithmeticException e)
{
}
System.out.println(“After catch statement.”);
}
}
Out Put:
Statement1
5
Statement3

Control Flow in Try Catch
Try
{
Statement1
statement2
statement3
}
Catch(Exception e)
{
statement4
}
Statement5

Case1: No Exception
Out :1,2,3,5 -normal termination
Case2: if an exception raised at statement 2 and corresponding catch block
matched
Out put:1,4,5-normal termination
Case 3: if an exception raised at statement 2 and corresponding catch block
not matched
Out Put :1,-- abnormal termination
Case 4: if an exception raised at statement 4 or statement 5
Out put: Abnormal termination
Note :
1. With in the try block if any where exception raised then rest of the try block
won’t be executed even though we handled exception. Hence we have to
write only risky code into the try block.
2. In addition to try block there may be a chance of raising an exception inside
catch and finally blocks.
3. If any statement which is not part of try block and raise an exception then it
is always abnormal termination.

Methods to print Exception Information
Throwable class defines the following methods to
print Exception Information
Note : internally default exception handler will use printStackTrace to print exception
information to the console
Method Printable Format
printStackTrace() Name of the Exception : Description :
Stack Trace
toString() Name of the Exception : Description
getMessage() Description

Example
class Test
{
{
try
{
system.out.println(10/0);
}
catch(ArithmeticException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
System.out.println(e.toString());
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}
Java.lang:AE:/ by
Zero
At test.Main()
Java.lang:AE: / by
Zero
/ by Zero

Try with multiple catch blocks
The way of handling an exception is varied from exception to
exception hence for every exception type, it is highly
recommended to take separate catch block that is try with
multiple catch blocks is always possible and recommended to
use.
Example
Try
{
Risky code;
}
Catch(Exception e)
{
}
Bad programming practice

Example:
Try
{
Risky code;
}
Catch(Arithmetic Exception e)
{
Perform any Arithmetic operation;
}
Catch(FileNotFoundException e)
{
Use local file instead of remote file;
}
Catch(Exception e)
{
//Default Exception Handling;
}
Best Programming Practice

If try with multiple catch blocks present then the order of catch blocks is
very important.
We have to take child first and then parent otherwise we will get compile
time error saying
Exception XXX has already been caught
Example
Try
{
Risky code
}
Catch(Exception e)
{
}
{
}
Out put : Compile time error

Try
{
Risky code
}
{
}
Catch(Exception e)
{
}
Output:
Exception handled .

Nested try Statements
One try-catch block can be present in the another
try’s body. This is called Nesting of try catch blocks.
Each time a try block does not have a catch handler
for a particular exception, the stack is unwound and
the next try block’s catch handlers are inspected for
a match.
If no catch block matches, then the java run-time
system will handle the exception.

Syntax of Nested try Catch
.... //Main try block
try
{
statement 1;
statement 2;
//try-catch block inside another try block
try
{
statement 3;
statement 4;
}
catch(Exception e1)
{
//Exception Message
}
}
catch(Exception e3) //Catch of Main(parent) try block
{
//Exception Message
}

Throw Keyword
Some times we can create exception object explicitly and handover to jvm
manually, for this we have to use throw key word.
Throw new ArithmeticException(“/ by zero”);
The main objective of throw key word is to handover our created
exception object to jvm manually.
Example
Class test
{
{
Throw new ArithmeticException(“/ by zero”);
}
}
Best use of throw keyword is for user defined exceptions or customized
exceptions.

Throws keyword
In our program if there is a possibility of raising checked exception then compulsory we
should handle that checked exception otherwise we will get compile time error saying
Unreported Exception XXX must be caught or declared to be thrown
Syntax
type method-name(parameter-list) throws exception-list
{ // body of method }
Example
Class test
{
PrintWriter pw=new PrintWriter(“abc.txt”);
pw.println(“hello”);
}
}
Compile time error: Unreported Exception java.io.FileNotFound; must be caught or
declared to be thrown

We can handle this compile time error by using Throws keyword or by
using Try catch.
The purpose of throws keyword is to delegate the responsibility of
exception handling to the caller (it may be another method or JVM)
then caller method is responsible to handle that exception
Example
Class test
{
Public static void main(String args[]) throws FileNotFoundException
{
PrintWriter pw=new PrintWriter(“abc.txt”);
pw.println(“hello”);
}
}

Throws key word requires only for checked
exception.
Throws key word required only to convince
compiler and usage of throws keyword
doesn't prevent abnormal termination of the
program.

Finally block
finally block is a block that is used to execute important(clean up) code such as closing
connection, stream etc.
finally block is always executed whether exception is handled or not.
finally block follows try or catch block.
Example
Try
{
Risky code
}
Catch(Exception e)
{
}
finally
{
Clean up code;
}

Java’s Built-in Exceptions
Unchecked Exceptions

User defined Exception subclass
We can also create our own exception sub class simply by extending java Exception class.
Example
class TooYoungException extends RuntimeException
{
TooYoungException(String s)
{
super(s);
}
}
class CustException
{
{
int age=Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
if(age<18)
{
throw new TooYoungException("you are too young so u r not allowed");
}
else
{
System.out.println("u r allowed");
}
}
}

Chained Exception
Chained Exception was added to Java in JDK 1.4. This feature allow
you to relate one exception with another exception, i.e one
exception describes cause of another exception.
Two new constructors and two new methods were added to
Throwable class to support chained exception.
Throwable( Throwable cause )
Throwable( String str, Throwable cause )
getCause() and initCause() are the two methods added to
Throwable class.
getCause() method returns the actual cause associated with current
exception.
initCause() set an underlying cause(exception) with invoking
exception.

Example
import java.io.IOException;
public class ChainedException
{
public static void divide(int a, int b)
{
if(b==0)
{
ArithmeticException ae = new ArithmeticException("top layer"); ae.initCause( new IOException("cause") );
throw ae;
}
else
{
System.out.println(a/b);
}
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Try
{
divide(5, 0);
}
catch(ArithmeticException ae)
{
System.out.println( "caught : " +ae);
System.out.println("actual cause: "+ae.getCause());
}
}
}

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