'ProcessCanceledException' handled incorrectly

Reports ProcessCanceledExceptions handled in an incorrect way.

ProcessCanceledException and its inheritors must not be caught, swallowed, logged, or handled in any way. Instead, it must be rethrown so that the infrastructure can handle it correctly.

Inspection reports both explicit ProcessCanceledException or its inheritors catching, as well as catching RuntimeException, Exception and Throwable covering ProcessCanceledException.

Example:

// bad:
try {
  // ...
} catch (ProcessCanceledException e) { // exception should not be swallowed
}

// bad:
try {
  // ...
} catch (ProcessCanceledException e) {
  LOG.error("Error occurred", e); // exception should not be logged
  throw e;
}


// good:
try {
  // ...
} catch (ProcessCanceledException e) {
  // additional actions
  throw e;
}

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IncorrectProcessCanceledExceptionHandling

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New in 2023.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2024.2, Qodana for JVM 2024.2,
Can be installed with plugin:	Plugin DevKit, 242.22892

Last modified: 11 September 2024