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Bug 267463

Summary:	Update the "replace with multicatch" hint to support ReflectiveOperationException.
Product:	java	Reporter:	schulte2004 <schulte2004>
Component:	Hints	Assignee:	Svata Dedic <sdedic>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Version:	8.0.2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Other
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description schulte2004 2016-08-06 13:56:58 UTC

Converting a Java 5 codebase to Java 7, I started using the "replace with multicatch" hint. I would like to request that hint to support ReflectiveOperationException. Instead of converting multiple catch statements to something like:

catch ( ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException e )

the hint should generate just one catch statement like: 

catch ( ReflectiveOperationException e )

Maybe that better be a new hint. So that instead of just the "replace with multicatch" hint two hints are provided "replace with multicatch" and "replace with catch ReflectiveOperationException".

Comment 1 Svata Dedic 2016-08-06 19:53:38 UTC

Interesting enhancement. Should be configurable, though - an automatic heuristic is used to guess the "appropriate" common supertype to catch may produce very funny results.