[jira] [Closed] (JENA-2192) JENA's Model#read should throw checked exception(s) instead of RuntimeException(s)

["Andy Seaborne (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Andy Seaborne closed JENA-2192.
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> JENA's Model#read should throw checked exception(s) instead of RuntimeException(s)
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>                 Key: JENA-2192
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-2192
>             Project: Apache Jena
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Jena
>    Affects Versions: Jena 4.2.0
>            Reporter: Henry Kuijpers
>            Assignee: Andy Seaborne
>            Priority: Major
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> We have noticed that, when parsing a document using JENA's Model#read, a) there are no checked exceptions specified and b) when parsing fails, runtime exceptions are thrown.
> This makes it a bit cumbersome to catch cases where parsing goes wrong. One option is to wrap the statement in try/catch RuntimeException, however, this doesn't seem to be a good practice (and Sonar complains to us about it).
> We've seen some cases:
> * Malformed XML (normal XML parsers would fail also)
> * NPEs (in case the RDF standard is not properly followed and/or elements are pointing to unexisting items)
> I realize that adding a throws-declaration in the parse-method would be an API change, but as long as that is put in the release notes and done with a major version increase, I think that should be fine.
> WDYT?



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