Question

I have a try–catch block that I wish to break like a switch block but I couldn’t find a recommended way of doing it. I’m fetching a lot of data in the try–catch block and wish to stop the fetching in between in case a certain condition is met. Just to get it working for now, I’ve deliberately forced the code to go into the catch block:

int i=0;
    try {
        //--do stuff----
        if(//-------is condition met?--------//)
            i = 1/0; // divide 1 by 0 -- a definite exception
    }
    catch (Exception e) {//---------do nothing---------//}

Is it safe to do this or should I go for another way?

EDIT:I’m fetching some xml data(actually, a lot). Depending on the internet connection, I need to stop the parsing after sometime(time-out) rather than go through the entire stream. I go through loops but I also make some calculations later. It doesn’t make any sense to calculate with incomplete data, so I would prefer to just skip the whole thing.

Answer 1

Either break or throw will do what you want (and the throw would be preferable, you at least have some traceability as to WTH you’re doing.

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what: try {
         System.out.println ("before break");
         break what;

      } catch (Exception e) {}
   }

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