Question

I want to catch exception of a thread in doInBackground and print the error message in onPostExcecute. The problem is I don’t have the Throwable object in onPostExecute. How to catch Exception in non-UI thread and print the error message in UI-thread?

public class TestTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, List<String>> {

    @Override
    protected List<String> doInBackground(final Void... params) {
        try {
            ...
            return listOfString;
        } catch(SomeCustomException e) {
            ...
            return null;
        }       
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(final List<String> result) {
        if(result == null) {
            // print the error of the Throwable "e".
            // The problem is I don't have the Throwable object here! So I can't check the type of exception.
        }

    }
}

Update after Arun’s answer:

This is my AsyncTask wrapper class. It intends to do handling Exception in doInBackground but I can’t find a good solution to do it.

public abstract class AbstractWorkerTask<Params, Progress, Result>
extends AsyncTask<Params, Progress, Result>
implements Workable {
    protected OnPreExecuteListener onPreExecuteListener;
    protected OnPostExecuteListener<Result> onPostExecuteListener;
    protected ExceptionHappenedListener exceptionHappendedListener;
    private boolean working;

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        if (onPreExecuteListener != null) {
            onPreExecuteListener.onPreExecute();
        }
        working = true;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(final Result result) {
        working = false;
        if(/* .........*/ ) {
            exceptionHappendedListener.exceptionHappended(e);
        }
        if (onPostExecuteListener != null) {
            onPostExecuteListener.onPostExecute(result);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isWorking() {
        return working;
    }

    public void setOnPreExecuteListener(final OnPreExecuteListener onPreExecuteListener) {
        this.onPreExecuteListener = onPreExecuteListener;
    }

    public void setOnPostExecuteListener(final OnPostExecuteListener<Result> onPostExecuteListener) {
        this.onPostExecuteListener = onPostExecuteListener;
    }

    public void setExceptionHappendedListener(final ExceptionHappenedListener exceptionHappendedListener) {
        this.exceptionHappendedListener = exceptionHappendedListener;
    }

    public interface OnPreExecuteListener {
        void onPreExecute();
    }

    public interface OnPostExecuteListener<Result> {
        void onPostExecute(final Result result);
    }

    public interface ExceptionHappenedListener {
        void exceptionHappended(Exception e);
    }
}

Answer 1

Change the return type of doInBackground() to Object and when you receive the result in onPostExecute(Object result) use the instanceOf operator to check if the returned result is an Exception or the List<String>.

Edit

Since the result can either be an Exception or else the proper List, you can use the following:

protected void onPostExecute(final Object result) {
    working = false;
    if(result instanceof SomeCustomException) {
        exceptionHappendedListener.exceptionHappended(result);
    }
    else{
        if (onPostExecuteListener != null) {
            onPostExecuteListener.onPostExecute(result);
        }
    }
}

Also change the following statement:

public abstract class AbstractWorkerTask<Params, Progress, Object> extends AsyncTask<Params, Progress, Object>