How to create own annotation for junit that will skip test if concrete exception was thrown during execution?

Question

My application have several execution modes, and in 1 mode it is normal that some of my tests will throw a concrete exception. I need to annotate this methods with something

Answer 1

What about using JUnit Extensions?

The following example is taken from their Tutorial.

It provides aditional annotations for Prerequisites (@Prerequisite): Ignore tests based on conditions.

The required approach would be to check this during running tests. So you can simply add a @Prerequisite(requires="") annotation.

public class TestFillDatabase {
    @Prerequisite(requires = "databaseIsAvailable")
    @Test public void fillData() {
        // ...
    }

    public boolean databaseIsAvailable() {
        boolean isAvailable = ...;
        return isAvailable;
    }
}
public class TestFillDatabase {
    @Prerequisite(requires = "databaseIsAvailable")
    @Test public void fillData() {
        // ...
    }
    public boolean databaseIsAvailable() {
        boolean isAvailable = ...;
        return isAvailable ;
    }
}

This specified methods with @Prerequisite(requires = "databaseIsAvailable") must be a public method, returning a boolean or Boolean value.

If these methods will be consolidated in helper classes, you can also specify static methods within a class to be called using @Prerequisite(requires = "databaseIsAvailable", callee="DBHelper").

public class TestFillDatabase {
    @Prerequisite(requires = "databaseIsAvailable", callee="DBHelper")
    @Test public void fillData() {
        // ...
    }
}
public class DBHelper {
    public static boolean databaseIsAvailable() {
        boolean isAvailable = ...;
        return isAvailable ;
    }
}