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Programming Kotlin

You're reading from   Programming Kotlin Get to grips quickly with the best Java alternative

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787126367
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefan Bocutiu Stefan Bocutiu
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Stephen Samuel Stephen Samuel
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Kotlin FREE CHAPTER 2. Kotlin Basics 3. Object-Oriented Programming in Kotlin 4. Functions in Kotlin 5. Higher Order Functions and Functional Programming 6. Properties 7. Null Safety, Reflection, and Annotations 8. Generics 9. Data Classes 10. Collections 11. Testing in Kotlin 12. Microservices with Kotlin 13. Concurrency

Exception handling


Handling of exceptions is almost identical to the way Java handles exceptions with one key difference in Kotlin all exceptions are unchecked.

As a reminder, checked exceptions are those that must be declared as part of the method signature or handled inside the method. A typical example would be IOException, which is thrown by many File functions, and so ends up being declared in many places throughout the IO libraries.

Unchecked exceptions are those that do not need to be added to method signatures. A common example would be the all too familiar NullPointerException, which can be thrown anywhere. If this was a checked exception, literally every function would need to declare it!

In Kotlin, since all exceptions are unchecked, they never form part of function signatures.

The handling of an exception is identical to Java, with the use of try, catch, and finally blocks. Code that you wish to handle safely can be wrapped in a try block. Zero or more catch blocks can be added to...

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