Description William Kral 2005-09-09 03:01:18 EDT

If a class which uses generics has a public inner class which extends Exception
if there is ever a case where the exception needs to be caught in a different
class, even when the exception is caught in a try catch block the following two
errors show in the Problems View:

Unhandled exception type TestClass<String>.MyException	Tester.java
TestProject/com/test	line 9	September 9, 2005 2:47:41 AM
Unreachable catch block for TestClass<T>.MyException. This exception is never
thrown from the try statement body	Tester.java	TestProject/com/test	line 10
September 9, 2005 2:47:41 AM

It would appear that the eclipse compiler doesn't understands that
TestClass<String>.MyException and TestClass<T>.MyException are the same thing.

Tested with the Sun 1.5 JDK compiler and it compiles without error and runs as well.

Example Test Case is as follows:

TestClass.java:

package com.test;

public class TestClass<T> {
	
	public TestClass() throws MyException {
		throw new MyException();
	}

	public class MyException extends Exception {
		
		public MyException() {
			super();
		}
	}
}

Tester.java:

package com.test;

import com.test.TestClass.MyException;

public class Tester {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		try {
			TestClass<String> test = new TestClass<String>();
		} catch (MyException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}