Details
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Type:
Improvement
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Status:
Closed
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: None
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Fix Version/s: 1.2
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Component/s: None
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Labels:None
Description
It would be nice to have the xstream methods decorated with throws declarations.
In particular, XStream.fromXML() throws a StreamException if the XML is invalid.
You can only find out about this exception if you test with invalid data.
If there had been a throws statement, Eclipse would have warned me to add a try-catch clause (and I wouldn't have had to accept this bug report for my code).
And the exception would appear in the XStream Javadoc.
The Javadoc now contains a @thows statement. For Eclipse this is enough to give you a hint. The discussion between unsing checked or unchecked exceptions is long, we chose to use unckeched ones.