Chained Exceptions in Java - GeeksforGeeks

Chained Exceptions in Java - GeeksforGeeks

Chained Exceptions allows to relate one exception with another exception, i.e one exception describes cause of another exception. For example, consider a situation in which a method throws an ArithmeticException because of an attempt to divide by zero but the actual cause of exception was an I/O error which caused the divisor to be zero. The method will throw only ArithmeticException to the caller. So the caller would not come to know about the actual cause of exception. Chained Exception is used in such type of situations.

Constructors Of Throwable class Which support chained exceptions in java :

1. Throwable(Throwable cause) :- Where cause is the exception that causes the current exception.
2. Throwable(String msg, Throwable cause) :- Where msg is the exception message and cause is the exception that causes the current exception.

Methods Of Throwable class Which support chained exceptions in java :

1. getCause() method :- This method returns actual cause of an exception.
2. initCause(Throwable cause) method :- This method sets the cause for the calling exception.

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