How to wrap checked exceptions but keep the original runtime exceptions in Java

Question

I have some code that might throw both checked and runtime exceptions.

I\'d like to catch the checked exception and wrap it with a runtime exception. But if a Runtim

Answer 1

Not really.

If you do this a lot, you could tuck it away into a helper method.

static RuntimeException unchecked(Throwable t){
    if (t instanceof RuntimeException){
      return (RuntimeException) t;
    } else if (t instanceof Error) { // if you don't want to wrap those
      throw (Error) t;
    } else {
      return new RuntimeException(t);
    }
}

try{
 // ..
}
catch (Exception e){
   throw unchecked(e);
}