What is the proper way to handle exception inside callback?

Question

I've got a callback with exception instance. Currently i handle it this way, but i think that there is a better way. Would like to hear some comment from Java expert. =)

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onError(Exception e) {
   if (e instanceof IOException) {
      ioe = (IOException)e;
      // do smth with ioe
   } else if (e instanceof MyException) {
      mye = (MyException)e;
      // do smth with mye
   }
}
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Answer 1

I'm not 100% sure about what you mean by "handle exceptions inside callback", but the onError method you provided could be better expressed like this:

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onError(Exception e) {
   try {
       throw e;
   } catch (IOException ioe) {
      // do smth with ioe
   } catch (MyException mye) {
      // do smth with mye
   }
}
...

Answer 2

I think you could override "onError" with subclasses of exceptions:

interface MyExceptionHandler  
{
    onError(Exception e) {
          // Default exception
    }
    onError(IOException ioe) {
          // do smth with ioe
    }
    onError(MyException mye) {
          // do smth with mye
    }
}