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

["Henry Kuijpers (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Henry Kuijpers created JENA-2192:
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             Summary: JENA's Model#parse should throw checked exception(s) instead of RuntimeException(s)
                 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


We have noticed that, when parsing a document using JENA's Model#parse, 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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