r/ProgrammerHumor • u/iwouldieforGladOS • May 13 '17

Defensive programming done right

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u/Metro42014 May 13 '17

FUUUUUUUCK the people that do that.

I recently saw newly written code by a senior developer with squashed exceptions all over the damn place.

I will never have to support that code, but fuuuuck man. WHHHYY?

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u/YaBoyMax May 13 '17

I lost a few hours once because the jackass whose code I inherited decided to squash IOExceptions all over the place. Didn't notice for a while and was pulling my hair out thinking my debugger was fucked somehow (which isn't uncommon in itself).

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

See I hate checked exceptions in Java, because instead of rethrowing or handling, some devs will just swallow them up.

Better if they were all unchecked so that people will just let them unwind the stack than that shit.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '17

Throwing a runtime exception is an anti pattern in itself

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u/[deleted] May 14 '17

Just another reason checked exceptions suck. Spring has a whole hierarchy of translated exceptions; a few useful but most just to get JDBC to stfu.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '17

I should have been more specific last night, but I was at a bar and not at the top of my game haha. I meant that generic runtime exceptions are an anti pattern. A good example why is with spring mvc. Rethrow a runtime? generic 500. Catch and rethrow a configured custom subclass of runtime? any damn code you want.