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Exception-Escape Chain Companion

Free

Exception Handling

Warning on a catch (Exception e) (the broad type, not a narrower specific exception) that silently swallows: no rethrow, no logging: a specific CHECKED exception that a call inside its try block can actually throw, directly or transitively through a bounded same-class call chain.

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39Downloads
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2026-09-02Published
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The gap it fixes

A real business exception (e.g. PaymentDeclinedException) caught this way leaves the system in an inconsistent state with no trace to diagnose the real incident. "Exception Catcher" (Marketplace) solves the opposite problem (where is X caught); no plugin found that computes the real escape set through a call chain.

Facts and pricing

Category
Code Quality
Pricing
Free
Platform
IntelliJ-family
First published
2026-09-02
Marketplace ID
#34013
Repository
exception-escape-chain-companion
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