多年来,我一直无法得到以下问题的一个像样的答案:为什么一些开发人员如此反对受控异常?我有过无数次的对话,在博客上读过一些东西,读过Bruce Eckel说的话(我看到的第一个站出来反对他们的人)。

我目前正在编写一些新代码,并非常注意如何处理异常。我试图了解那些“我们不喜欢受控异常”的人的观点,但我仍然看不出来。

我的每一次谈话都以同样的问题结束。让我把它建立起来:

一般来说(从Java的设计方式来看),

Error is for things that should never be caught (VM has a peanut allergy and someone dropped a jar of peanuts on it) RuntimeException is for things that the programmer did wrong (programmer walked off the end of an array) Exception (except RuntimeException) is for things that are out of the programmer's control (disk fills up while writing to the file system, file handle limit for the process has been reached and you cannot open any more files) Throwable is simply the parent of all of the exception types.

我听到的一个常见的说法是,如果发生了异常,那么所有开发人员要做的就是退出程序。

我听到的另一个常见论点是受控异常使得重构代码更加困难。

对于“我要做的就是退出”的参数,我说即使你退出了,你也需要显示一个合理的错误消息。如果你只是在处理错误上押注,那么当程序在没有明确说明原因的情况下退出时,你的用户不会太高兴。

对于“它使重构变得困难”的人群来说,这表明没有选择适当的抽象级别。与其声明方法抛出IOException,不如将IOException转换为更适合当前情况的异常。

我对用catch(Exception)(或在某些情况下用catch(Throwable)包装Main没有问题,以确保程序可以优雅地退出-但我总是捕获我需要的特定异常。这样做至少可以显示适当的错误消息。

人们从来不会回答的问题是:

如果抛出RuntimeException 子类代替异常 子类,你怎么知道 你应该去抓?

如果答案是catch Exception,那么您也在以与系统异常相同的方式处理程序员错误。在我看来这是不对的。

如果你捕获Throwable,那么你是在以同样的方式处理系统异常和虚拟机错误(等等)。在我看来这是不对的。

如果答案是您只捕获您知道抛出的异常,那么您如何知道抛出了哪些异常呢?当程序员X抛出一个新的异常而忘记捕获它时会发生什么?这对我来说似乎很危险。

我认为显示堆栈跟踪的程序是错误的。不喜欢受控异常的人不会有这种感觉吗?

所以,如果你不喜欢受控异常,你能解释一下为什么不,并回答没有得到回答的问题吗?

我不是在寻求什么时候使用这两种模型的建议,我想知道的是为什么人们从RuntimeException扩展,因为他们不喜欢从Exception扩展,和/或为什么他们捕获一个异常然后重新抛出一个RuntimeException,而不是将抛出添加到他们的方法中。我想了解不喜欢受控异常的动机。


当前回答

Anders在软件工程电台的第97集中谈到了受控异常的陷阱,以及他为什么把它们排除在c#之外。

其他回答

程序员需要知道一个方法可能抛出的所有异常,以便正确地使用它。因此,仅仅用一些异常来打击他并不一定能帮助一个粗心的程序员避免错误。

微小的好处被繁重的成本所抵消(特别是在较大、不太灵活的代码库中,不断修改接口签名是不切实际的)。

Static analysis can be nice, but truly reliable static analysis often inflexibly demands strict work from the programmer. There is a cost-benefit calculation, and the bar needs to be set high for a check that leads to a compile time error. It would be more helpful if the IDE took on the role of communicating which exceptions a method may throw (including which are unavoidable). Although perhaps it would not be as reliable without forced exception declarations, most exceptions would still be declared in documentation, and the reliability of an IDE warning is not so crucial.

我读了很多关于异常处理的书,即使(大多数时候)我不能真的说我对受控异常的存在感到高兴或悲伤,这是我的看法:在低级代码(IO,网络,OS等)中受控异常,在高级api /应用程序级别中未受控异常。

即使在它们之间没有那么容易划清界限,我发现在同一屋檐下集成几个api /库而不始终包装大量的检查异常是非常烦人/困难的,但另一方面,有时强制捕获一些异常并提供一个在当前上下文中更有意义的不同异常是有用/更好的。

The project I'm working on takes lots of libraries and integrates them under the same API, API which is completely based on unchecked exceptions.This frameworks provides a high-level API which in the beginning was full of checked exceptions and had only several unchecked exceptions(Initialization Exception, ConfigurationException, etc) and I must say was not very friendly. Most of the time you had to catch or re-throw exceptions which you don't know how to handle, or you don't even care(not to be confused with you should ignore exceptions), especially on the client side where a single click could throw 10 possible (checked) exceptions.

The current version(3rd one) uses only unchecked exceptions, and it has a global exception handler which is responsible to handle anything uncaught. The API provides a way to register exception handlers, which will decide if an exception is considered an error(most of the time this is the case) which means log & notify somebody, or it can mean something else - like this exception, AbortException, which means break the current execution thread and don't log any error 'cause it is desired not to. Of course, in order to work out all custom thread must handle the run() method with a try {...} catch(all).

公共无效运行(){

try {
     ... do something ...
} catch (Throwable throwable) {
     ApplicationContext.getExceptionService().handleException("Handle this exception", throwable);
}

}

如果您使用WorkerService来安排作业(Runnable, Callable, Worker),这是不必要的,它会为您处理一切。

当然,这只是我的个人观点,它可能不是正确的,但对我来说这是一个很好的方法。我将在发布项目后看看我认为对我有好处的东西,对其他人也有好处……:)

Artima发表了一篇对。net架构师之一Anders Hejlsberg的采访,其中尖锐地讨论了反对受控异常的论点。品性差的人:

The throws clause, at least the way it's implemented in Java, doesn't necessarily force you to handle the exceptions, but if you don't handle them, it forces you to acknowledge precisely which exceptions might pass through. It requires you to either catch declared exceptions or put them in your own throws clause. To work around this requirement, people do ridiculous things. For example, they decorate every method with, "throws Exception." That just completely defeats the feature, and you just made the programmer write more gobbledy gunk. That doesn't help anybody.

SNR

首先,检查异常降低了代码的“信噪比”。Anders Hejlsberg也谈到了命令式编程和声明式编程,这是一个类似的概念。不管怎样,考虑下面的代码片段:

在Java中从非UI线程更新UI:

try {  
    // Run the update code on the Swing thread  
    SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(() -> {  
        try {
            // Update UI value from the file system data  
            FileUtility f = new FileUtility();  
            uiComponent.setValue(f.readSomething());
        } catch (IOException e) {  
            throw new UncheckedIOException(e);
        }
    });
} catch (InterruptedException ex) {  
    throw new IllegalStateException("Interrupted updating UI", ex);  
} catch (InvocationTargetException ex) {
    throw new IllegalStateException("Invocation target exception updating UI", ex);
}

在c#中从非UI线程更新UI:

private void UpdateValue()  
{  
   // Ensure the update happens on the UI thread  
   if (InvokeRequired)  
   {  
       Invoke(new MethodInvoker(UpdateValue));  
   }  
   else  
   {  
       // Update UI value from the file system data  
       FileUtility f = new FileUtility();  
       uiComponent.Value = f.ReadSomething();  
   }  
}  

这对我来说清楚多了。当您开始在Swing中做越来越多的UI工作时,检查异常开始变得非常烦人和无用。

监狱打破

即使要实现最基本的实现,比如Java的List接口,作为契约式设计工具的受控异常也行不通。考虑一个由数据库、文件系统或任何其他抛出受控异常的实现支持的列表。唯一可能的实现是捕获已检查异常,并将其作为未检查异常重新抛出:

@Override
public void clear()  
{  
   try  
   {  
       backingImplementation.clear();  
   }  
   catch (CheckedBackingImplException ex)  
   {  
       throw new IllegalStateException("Error clearing underlying list.", ex);  
   }  
}  

现在你要问所有这些代码的意义是什么?被检查的异常只是增加了噪音,异常被捕获但没有处理,契约式设计(就被检查的异常而言)已经失效。

结论

捕获异常与处理异常是不同的。 受控异常会给代码添加噪音。 没有它们,异常处理在c#中也能很好地工作。

我之前在博客上写过。

尽管阅读了整页,我仍然找不到一个反对受控异常的合理论点。相反,大多数人都在谈论糟糕的API设计,无论是在一些Java类中还是在他们自己的类中。

这个功能唯一令人讨厌的地方就是原型设计。这可以通过向语言中添加一些机制来解决(例如,一些@supresscheckedexceptions注释)。但是对于常规编程,我认为受控异常是一件好事。