In a finally block, can I tell if an exception has been thrown [duplicate]

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Is it possible to detect if an exception occurred before I entered a finally block?

I have a workflow method that does things, and throws an exception if an error occurred. I want to add reporting metrics to my workflow. In the finally block below, is there any way to tell if one of the methods in the try/catch block threw an exception ?

I could add my own catch/throw code, but would prefer a cleaner solution as this is a pattern I'm reusing across my project.

@Override public void workflowExecutor() throws Exception {   try {       reportStartWorkflow();       doThis();       doThat();       workHarder();   } finally {       /**        * Am I here because my workflow finished normally, or because a workflow method        * threw an exception?        */       reportEndWorkflow();    } } 

Answer 1

There is no automatic way provided by Java. You could use a boolean flag:

boolean success = false; try {   reportStartWorkflow();   doThis();   doThat();   workHarder();   success = true; } finally {   if (!success) System.out.println("No success"); }