Question

I’m pretty sure this is an easy one but I could not find a straight forward answer. How do I call a method with a throws FileNotFoundException?

Here’s my method:

private static void fallingBlocks() throws FileNotFoundException

Answer 1

You call it, and either declare that your method throws it too, or catch it:

public void foo() throws FileNotFoundException // Or e.g. throws IOException
{
    // Do stuff
    fallingBlocks();
}

Or:

public void foo()
{
    // Do stuff
    try
    {
        fallingBlocks();
    }
    catch (FileNotFoundException e)
    {
        // Handle the exception
    }
}

See section 11.2 of the Java Language Specification or the Java Tutorial on Exceptions for more details.