Re: [cp-patches] Re: RFC: Patch for duplicate entries in serialPersistentFields

[Guilhem Lavaux]

Archie Cobbs wrote:
> Stuart Ballard wrote:
>
> > Jeroen pointed out to me a while back that you can use generics to 
> > throw an
> > unchecked exception:
>
>
> There's also a way to do this without using JDK 1.5 stuff, but it's
> even uglier :-)
>
> Construct a class (dynamically) that has a default constructor
> that simply throws whatever exception you want. Then invoke
> Class.newInstance() on the class.

Bah ! I would rather use a native function that will throw directly 
InvalidClassException. The problem is that's will be anyway hidden to 
the general user and that he/she may be surprised getting that sort of 
exception.

Guilhem.