Caught exception is immediately rethrown

Last modified: 03 December 2024

Reports catch blocks that immediately rethrow the caught exception without performing any action on it. Such catch blocks are unnecessary and have no error handling.

Locating this inspection

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Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

CaughtExceptionImmediatelyRethrown
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Java | Error handling

Example:

try {
    new FileInputStream("");
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
    throw e;
}

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3, Qodana for JVM 2024.3,

Can be installed with plugin:

Java, 243.23126