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Anghel Leonard
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Anghel Leonard is a Chief Technology Strategist and independent consultant with 20+ years of experience in the Java ecosystem. In daily work, he is focused on architecting and developing Java distributed applications that empower robust architectures, clean code, and high-performance. Also passionate about coaching, mentoring and technical leadership. He is the author of several books, videos and dozens of articles related to Java technologies.
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196. Throwing checked exceptions from lambdas

Let's suppose that we have the following lambda:

static void readFiles(List<Path> paths) {
  paths.forEach(p -> {
    try {
      readFile(p);
    } catch (IOException e) {
      ... // what can we throw here?
    }
  });
}

What can we throw in the catch block? Everybody knows the answer … we can throw an unchecked exception such as RuntimeException:

static void readFiles(List<Path> paths) {
  paths.forEach(p -> {
    try {
      readFile(p);
    } catch (IOException e) {
      throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
  });
}

Also, everybody knows that we cannot throw a checked exception such as IOException. The following snippet of code will not compile:

static void readFiles(List<Path> paths) {
  paths.forEach(p -> {
    try {
      readFile(p);
    } catch (IOException e) {
      throw new IOException(e);
    }
  });
}

Can we change this rule? Can we come up with a hack that allows us to throw checked...

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Anghel Leonard

Anghel Leonard is a Chief Technology Strategist and independent consultant with 20+ years of experience in the Java ecosystem. In daily work, he is focused on architecting and developing Java distributed applications that empower robust architectures, clean code, and high-performance. Also passionate about coaching, mentoring and technical leadership. He is the author of several books, videos and dozens of articles related to Java technologies.
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