You Know IOException? Think Again!

Thu, Sep 14, 2006

I was amazed today to find out that there was no constructor IOException(String, Throwable) or IOException(Throwable) in JDK1.4 and JDK1.5. It is finally in JDK1.6, I can’t believe it took Sun that much time to change that.

So the workaround is:

`IOException ioe = new IOException("message");`
`ioe.initCause(e);`
`throw ioe;`

It can also be written as:

`throw (IOException) new IOException("message").initCause(e);`

It is not a major problem, but still. We can all thank the guy who reported that as a bug to Sun in 2004.

You Know IOException? Think Again!

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