Question

I wrote a piece of code to catch specific exception with help from this link. It is like:

catch (SQLException sqle) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
String sqlMessage = sqle.getMessage();
String sqlState = sqle.getSQLState();
int vendorCode = sqle.getErrorCode();
System.out.println("Exception occurred:");
System.out.println("Message: " + sqlMessage);
System.out.println("SQL state: " + sqlState);
System.out.println("Vendor code: " + vendorCode); 
}

But I am getting output as:

java.sql.SQLException: ORA-00001: unique constraint (SYSTEM.PK_USERID) violated

at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:125)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:305)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:272)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.receive(T4C8Oall.java:623)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CPreparedStatement.doOall8(T4CPreparedStatement.java:181)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CPreparedStatement.execute_for_rows(T4CPreparedStatement.java:543)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.doExecuteWithTimeout(OracleStatement.java:1028)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.executeInternal(OraclePreparedStatement.java:2888)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.executeUpdate(OraclePreparedStatement.java:2960)
at accessdb.Dao.insertnewuser(Dao.java:32)
at Registration.doGet(Registration.java:47)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:690)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:286)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

if the error is :

java.sql.SQLException: ORA-00001: unique constraint (SYSTEM.PK_USERID) violated

and I am getting output as

Exception occurred:
Message: Listener refused the connection with the following error:
ORA-12505, TNS:listener does not currently know of SID given in connect descriptor
The Connection descriptor used by the client was:
localhost:1521:XE
SQL state: null
Vendor code: 0

if the error is :

Listener refused the connection with the following error: ORA-12505, TNS:listener does not currently know of SID given in connect descriptor The Connection descriptor used by the client was: localhost:1521:XE.

Why is the difference in output happening for same piece of code?

EDIT:
Ok, so here is the try block for further clarification.

protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
    // Authentication and Logging in The Registered User
    Getset g=new Getset();
    Dao dao=new Dao();
    String userid="";
    String fname="";
//  PrintWriter pw=response.getWriter();
    String loginemail=request.getParameter("loginemail");
    String loginpassword=request.getParameter("loginpassword");
    if(loginemail.equals("")||loginemail.equals(" ")||loginpassword.equals("")||loginpassword.equals(" "))
    {
        response.sendRedirect("WelcomePage.jsp");
    }
    else{
    g.setloginemail(loginemail);
    g.setloginpassword(loginpassword);
    try {
        ResultSet rs=dao.loginauthentication(g);
        while(rs.next())   //Fetching all emails and passwords from user table
        {
            String regemail=rs.getString("regemail");
            String regpassword=rs.getString("regpassword");
            System.out.println(""+regemail);
            if(loginemail.equals(regemail) && (loginpassword.equals(regpassword))==true)
            {   
                System.out.println("55555");
                ResultSet rs1=dao.getnameid(g);
                while(rs1.next())   //GET USERID and name FROM NEWUSER TO USE AS PRIMARY KEY
                {
                     userid=rs1.getString("USERID");
                     fname=rs1.getString("FNAME");
                //  System.out.println(""+userid);

                }

                HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);
                  session.setAttribute("USERID", userid);
                  session.setAttribute("FNAME", fname);
                response.sendRedirect("UserHome.jsp");
                return;
            }
        }  
        if(rs.next()==false){
            System.out.println("caught");
            response.sendRedirect("WelcomePage.jsp");
            return; 
        }

    }

Answer 1

You have not posted enough of your code to provide a definite answer, but this is what you’d call an “educated guess”: the try of your catch clause does not enclose this line of code:

accessdb.Dao.insertnewuser(Dao.java:32)

With your new code, the following hypothesis is even more plausible: your insertnewuser method has its own try-catch block that looks like this:

try {
  ...prepare an insert statement...
  stmt.executeUpdate(...);
} catch (SQLException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }

This swallows your exception and makes your method complete normally in spite of the exception. Solution: remove the entire try-catch block from that method and make the method declare throws SQLException.