Exceptions returned in the connection to couchbase server

Java SDK
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Hello everyone.

I have a doubt related with the java sdk
I’m doing connection tests and when it fails the exception returned is always the same com.couchbase.client.core.config.ConfigurationException with the message could not open bucket.
In this test i’m trying to connect to a non existing server and i’m not able to get the real exception cause without parsing the throwable.getCause().getCause() that method returns
java.net.ConnectException: Conexión rehusada (In my machine, configured with an es_ES locale)

A solution could be do something like this throwable.getCause().getCause().getClass().equals(java.net.ConnectException.class) but this is not fancy code

Is there any reason for not specialize that exception (ConfigurationException) and create more concret exceptions?

Thanks to all.

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Hi Bernal,

It’s unclear why the exception is not specialized, but here is a general-purpose utility method that might help.

/**
 * Returns true if the given throwable or any throwable
 * in its causal chain is an instance of the given type.
 */
public static boolean isCausedBy(Throwable throwable,
                                 Class<? extends Throwable> type) {
  if (throwable == null) {
    throw new NullPointerException();
  }

  for (Throwable t = throwable; t != null; t = t.getCause()) {
    if (type.isAssignableFrom(t.getClass())) {
      return true;
    }
  }

  return false;
}

With that method in your toolbox, you can write isCausedBy(throwable, ConnectException.class) which is slightly fancier :slight_smile:

Thanks,
David

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Thanks for the response.

Clearly is a much better way to check the exceptions but anyway the exceptions checking in the java sdk is a point to be improved.

Best regards and thanks again for the response.