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package libcore.util;
/**
* Exploits a weakness in the runtime to throw an arbitrary throwable without
* the traditional declaration. This is a dangerous API that should be
* used with great caution. Typically this is useful when rethrowing
* throwables that are of a known range of types.
*
* The following code must enumerate several types to rethrow:
*
* public void close() throws IOException {
* Throwable thrown = null;
* ...
*
* if (thrown != null) {
* if (thrown instanceof IOException) {
* throw (IOException) thrown;
* } else if (thrown instanceof RuntimeException) {
* throw (RuntimeException) thrown;
* } else if (thrown instanceof Error) {
* throw (Error) thrown;
* } else {
* throw new AssertionError();
* }
* }
* }
* With SneakyThrow, rethrowing is easier:
*
* public void close() throws IOException {
* Throwable thrown = null;
* ...
*
* if (thrown != null) {
* SneakyThrow.sneakyThrow(thrown);
* }
* }
*/
public final class SneakyThrow {
private SneakyThrow() {}
public static void sneakyThrow(Throwable t) {
SneakyThrow.sneakyThrow2(t);
}
/**
* Exploits unsafety to throw an exception that the compiler wouldn't permit
* but that the runtime doesn't check. See Java Puzzlers #43.
*/
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
private static void sneakyThrow2(Throwable t) throws T {
throw (T) t;
}
}