Question

In the following code, I get the Unreachable catch block for IOException. This exception is never thrown from the try statement body error(underlined) with the IOException in } catch (IOException e){ what am I doing wrong?

class driver {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    Customer forrest = new Customer("Forrest Gump", 1,
        "42 New Street, New York, New York");
    Customer random = new Customer("Random Name", 2,
        "44 New Street, New York, New York");
    Customer customer[] = { null, forrest, random };
    int whichOption = 1;
    int id = 0;
    char action = ' ';
    char accSrc = ' ';
    char accDest = ' ';
    double amount = 0;
    BankAccount src = null;
    do {

      try{
        // process JOptionPane input information
        String input = JOptionPane
            .showInputDialog("Please enter your transaction information: ");
        Scanner s = new Scanner(input);
        id = Integer.parseInt(s.next());
        action = Character.toUpperCase((s.next().charAt(0)));

        if (action == 'T') {
          amount = s.nextDouble();
          accSrc = s.next().charAt(0);
          accDest = s.next().charAt(0);
        } else if (action == 'G' || action == 'I') {
          accSrc = s.next().charAt(0);
        } else {
          // if D,W
          amount = s.nextDouble();
          accSrc = s.next().charAt(0);
        }

      } catch (IOException e){

      }
      // taking action accordingly (T)ransfer, (D)eposit, (W)ithdraw, (I)nterest
      if (action == 'T') {

        (customer[id].getAccount(accSrc)).transfer(amount,
            customer[id].getAccount(accDest));
      } else if (action == 'G') {
        System.out.println("The current balance on your " + accSrc
            + " account is "
            + customer[id].getAccount(accSrc).getBalance() + "\n");
      } else if (action == 'D') {
        (customer[id].getAccount(accSrc)).deposit(amount);
      } else if (action == 'W') {
        (customer[id].getAccount(accSrc)).withdraw(amount);
      } else if (action == 'I') {
        (customer[id].getAccount(accSrc)).computeInterest();
      }
      whichOption = JOptionPane
          .showConfirmDialog(null , "Do you want to continue?");

      System.out.println("The balance on " + customer[id].getName()
          + " auto account is " + customer[id].A.balance);
      System.out.println("The balance on " + customer[id].getName()
          + " savings account is " + customer[id].S.balance);
      System.out.println("The balance on " + customer[id].getName()
          + " checkings account is " + customer[id].C.balance);
      System.out.println("The balance on " + customer[id].getName()
          + " loan account is " + customer[id].L.balance + "\n");

    } while (whichOption == 0);

  }
}

Answer 1

It is because none of the operations you perform inside try/catch throws IOException.

As per Scanner javadoc

Most of the Scanner class methods throws either FileNotFoundException (Which is not applicable in your case because not reading from file) (or) IllegalArgumentException (or) IllegalStateException

You need to change IOException to either of above exceptions (or) remove try/catch.