Question

I have a try with several different catches after it. I have some “cleanup” code that only should be run if there was an exception thrown. I could add the same code to each exception, but that becomes a maintenance nightmare. Basically, I’d like something like the finally statement, but for it to only run if an exception was thrown.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

There is no direct support for this unfortunately. How about something like this

boolean successful = false;
try {
    // do stuff
    successful = true;
} catch (...) {
    ...
} finally {
    if (!successful) {
        // cleanup
    }
}