I want my thread to handle interruption, but I can't catch InterruptedException because it is a checked exception

Question

I have a thread in Java which calls

t.interrupt();

making t (a different thread) be interrupted. I want the \"t\" thread to then catch an

Answer 1

Rather than catching InterruptedException you can call Thread.interrupted() or Thread.getCurrentThread().isInterrupted() (the former will clear the interrupted flag, the latter will not), which will return true if the interrupted flag is set. You can only catch InterruptedException if you've called a method that throws it, like sleep