Question

I was recently quickly writing this little function 5 minutes ago when i got the compiler error unreachable statement

private static boolean isTransientField(String name, Class beanClass) {
        try {
            Field field = beanClass.getDeclaredField(name);
            return (field.getModifiers() & Modifier.TRANSIENT) == Modifier.TRANSIENT;
        } catch (Exception e) {return false;}

        return false;//unreachable statement
    }

Apparently my last return false is unreachable but why if my catch block only runs in exceptional cases?

Answer 1

Because you have a return statement within the try.