我有一个这样的循环:

for (int i = 0; i < max; i++) {
    String myString = ...;
    float myNum = Float.parseFloat(myString);
    myFloats[i] = myNum;
}

这是一个方法的主要内容,该方法的唯一目的是返回浮点数数组。我想让这个方法在出现错误时返回null,所以我把循环放在try…Catch block,像这样:

try {
    for (int i = 0; i < max; i++) {
        String myString = ...;
        float myNum = Float.parseFloat(myString);
        myFloats[i] = myNum;
    }
} catch (NumberFormatException ex) {
    return null;
}

但后来我也想到试一试……Catch块在循环中,像这样:

for (int i = 0; i < max; i++) {
    String myString = ...;
    try {
        float myNum = Float.parseFloat(myString);
    } catch (NumberFormatException ex) {
        return null;
    }
    myFloats[i] = myNum;
}

是否有任何理由,性能或其他方面,更喜欢其中一个?


编辑:共识似乎是,将循环放在try/catch中更干净,可能是在它自己的方法中。然而,关于哪个速度更快仍存在争议。有人能测试一下并给出一个统一的答案吗?


当前回答

异常的全部意义在于鼓励第一种风格:让错误处理被合并并处理一次,而不是在每个可能的错误位置立即处理。

其他回答

As already mentioned, the performance is the same. However, user experience isn't necessarily identical. In the first case, you'll fail fast (i.e. after the first error), however if you put the try/catch block inside the loop, you can capture all the errors that would be created for a given call to the method. When parsing an array of values from strings where you expect some formatting errors, there are definitely cases where you'd like to be able to present all the errors to the user so that they don't need to try and fix them one by one.

如果这是一个全有或全无的失败,那么第一种格式是有意义的。如果希望能够处理/返回所有未失败的元素,则需要使用第二种形式。这些就是我选择方法的基本标准。就我个人而言,如果是孤注一掷,我不会使用第二种形式。

上面没有提到的另一个方面是,每个try-catch都会对堆栈产生一些影响,这可能会对递归方法产生影响。

如果方法"outer()"调用方法"inner()"(它可能递归地调用自己),如果可能的话,尝试在方法"outer()"中找到try-catch。我们在性能类中使用的一个简单的“堆栈崩溃”示例,当try-catch在内部方法中时,在大约6400帧时失败,当它在外部方法中时,在大约11,600帧时失败。

在现实世界中,如果您正在使用Composite模式并且具有大型、复杂的嵌套结构,这可能会成为一个问题。

把它放在里面。您可以继续处理(如果您愿意),也可以抛出一个有用的异常,告诉客户端myString的值和包含坏值的数组的索引。我认为NumberFormatException已经告诉您坏的值,但原则是将所有有用的数据放在您抛出的异常中。考虑一下在程序的调试器中,您会对什么感兴趣。

考虑:

try {
   // parse
} catch (NumberFormatException nfe){
   throw new RuntimeException("Could not parse as a Float: [" + myString + 
                              "] found at index: " + i, nfe);
} 

在需要的时候,您将非常感谢这样一个异常,其中包含尽可能多的信息。

As long as you are aware of what you need to accomplish in the loop you could put the try catch outside the loop. But it is important to understand that the loop will then end as soon as the exception occurs and that may not always be what you want. This is actually a very common error in Java based software. People need to process a number of items, such as emptying a queue, and falsely rely on an outer try/catch statement handling all possible exceptions. They could also be handling only a specific exception inside the loop and not expect any other exception to occur. Then if an exception occurs that is not handled inside the loop then the loop will be "preemted", it ends possibly prematurely and the outer catch statement handles the exception.

如果循环在生活中扮演清空队列的角色,那么循环很可能在队列真正清空之前就结束了。非常常见的错误。