From d373336b74d9b70e5cee2144e406eb6d02c005bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: binary-joe <48189951+binary-joe@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 18:12:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] BAEL-2516 catching errors in catch block (#6761)

---
 .../com/baeldung/error/ErrorGenerator.java    | 15 ++++++
 .../error/ErrorGeneratorUnitTest.java         | 51 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 66 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 core-java-lang/src/main/java/com/baeldung/error/ErrorGenerator.java
 create mode 100644 core-java-lang/src/test/java/com/baeldung/error/ErrorGeneratorUnitTest.java

diff --git a/core-java-lang/src/main/java/com/baeldung/error/ErrorGenerator.java b/core-java-lang/src/main/java/com/baeldung/error/ErrorGenerator.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..58cbe22df5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java-lang/src/main/java/com/baeldung/error/ErrorGenerator.java
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package com.baeldung.error;
+
+public class ErrorGenerator {
+    public void throwException() throws Exception {
+        throw new Exception("checked");
+    }
+
+    public void throwRuntimeException() {
+        throw new RuntimeException("unchecked");
+    }
+
+    public void throwError() {
+        throw new Error("unchecked");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/core-java-lang/src/test/java/com/baeldung/error/ErrorGeneratorUnitTest.java b/core-java-lang/src/test/java/com/baeldung/error/ErrorGeneratorUnitTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2a7c24f5fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java-lang/src/test/java/com/baeldung/error/ErrorGeneratorUnitTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+package com.baeldung.error;
+
+import org.junit.Assert;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class ErrorGeneratorUnitTest {
+
+    private ErrorGenerator errorGenerator;
+
+    @Before
+    public void setUp() {
+        errorGenerator = new ErrorGenerator();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenCheckedException_thenIsCaughtByCatchException() {
+        try {
+            errorGenerator.throwException();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            // caught! -> test pass
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUncheckedException_thenIsCaughtByCatchException() {
+        try {
+            errorGenerator.throwRuntimeException();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            // caught! -> test pass
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test(expected = Error.class)
+    public void whenError_thenIsNotCaughtByCatchException() {
+        try {
+            errorGenerator.throwError();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            Assert.fail(); // errors are not caught by catch exception
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenError_thenIsCaughtByCatchError() {
+        try {
+            errorGenerator.throwError();
+        } catch (Error e) {
+            // caught! -> test pass
+        }
+    }
+}
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