Question

Given that eating exceptions is always bad juju and re-throwing the exception loses the call stack, what’s the proper way to re-factor the following?

Eating Exceptions:

try
{
  … do something meaningful
}
catch(SomeException ex)
{
   // eat exception
}

Answer 1

try
{
 ...
}
catch(SomeException e)
{
 //Do whatever is needed with e
 throw; //This rethrows and preserves call stack.
}