scala: How to know the program have unhandled exceptions before running?

Question

this is a test program:

object Test {

    def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
        // there is an unhandled exception in here, I expect program can remind me, and I can handled it before running.
        myException()  
    }

    def myException: Unit ={
        throw new Exception
    }
}

In Java, when I called a method with unhandling exception, the program will occur error, and tell you add throws declaration or surround with try/catch.

How to know the program have unhandled exceptions before running in Scala?

Answer 1

Scala has a somewhat different philosophy with regards to Exceptions.

The rule of thumb is to not use them unless for something truly exceptional and, thus "let it fail". The reason invoked behind this rule is that, in FP terms, exceptions break referential transparency.

The good practice is to use Either or Option to handle/wrap "errors" rather than throwing exceptions. (the link provided by @Tawkir seems a good read)

Unfortunately this does not help when interfacing with Java code which often uses Exceptions for program control flow, and the compiler will not help you there. A practical way around this is to wrap Exception throwing code with a Try and then call recover or recoverWith to handle these exceptions and, say, wrap them in another structure.

Please note that you can mark a scala method with an @throws annotation to specify the Exception(s) that this method throws, but this should really be used when writing scala code meant to be used by a Java caller expecting an Exception to be thrown.