Handling checked exceptions

[hrstoyanov]

Consider using this (perfectly legit ) java hack :

public interface ExceptionUtils {

    /**
     * Rethrow an {@link java.lang.Throwable} preserving the stack trace but making it unchecked.
     *
     * @param exception to be re-thrown as unchecked.
     */
    static void rethrowUnchecked(final Throwable eexception{
        rethrow(exception);
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    private static <T extends Throwable> void rethrow(final Throwable t) throws T {
        throw (T) t;
    }

}

This would remove the need for always having to wrap check exceptions such as IORuntimeException and possibly others, preserving a clean stack trace:

try {
    //...
}
catch(IOException e)  {
    // throw new IORuntimeException(e);
    ExceptionUtils.rethrowUnchecked(e);
}

[fh-ms]

Good idea to circumvent the checked exception mess.

If we consider using this solution, it would be a breaking change in our APIs. I will add this to the next major release milestone.