Re: [infinispan-dev] Util.getInstance
On 3 Sep 2009, at 10:38, Mircea Markus wrote:
There are a bunch of getInstance methods in Util for instantiating
objects that throw very specific checked exceptions(throws
IllegalAccessException, InstantiationException).
I'm thinking to remove this checked exceptions and wrap them in an
runtime CacheException, to simplify the calling code that catches them
and wraps them in a CacheException itself. If one would need to be
informed weather a class couldn't be instantiated, it can catch the
thrown CacheException.
Wdyt?
Well, they are specifically different exceptions thrown for very
different reasons. But then again, I don't think any of the code that
uses Util.getInstance() cares about this difference and treats them
the same anyway: rethrow as a CacheException!
So perhaps it does make sense to have this throw CacheException.
Better still, wouldn't it specifically be a ConfigurationException?
Isn't this usually used to instantiate configured plugins?
Cheers
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Manik Surtani
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