[forge-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (ROASTER-132) Broken interface promise for JavaParser

Broken interface promise for JavaParser --------------------------------------- Key: ROASTER-132 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ROASTER-132 Project: Roaster Issue Type: Bug Components: API, JDT Affects Versions: 2.20.8.Final Reporter: Kai Müller Priority: Major According to the interface JavaParser the methods "create" and "parseUnit" should retunr null of the type is not supported, but the JavaParserImpl throws instead ParserException. I can think about the following options: # change the behaviour in JavaParserImpl # change the interface description, but then make multiple parsers no sense any more if the first is failing with an exception # basically 2. but catch the exception --> ugly code (my personal opinion) # Add a "canHandle" method, which returns true if this type of source can be handled If think, that 1. is the easiest and cleanest solution. We should then maybe enhance the error message thrown if no parser was able to handle the source code. What do you think? Best regards, Kai