How to catch an Exception from a thread

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I have Java main class, in the class, I start a new thread, in the main, it waits until the thread dies. At some moment, I throw a runtime exception from the thread, but I can't catch the exception thrown from the thread in the main class.

Here is the code:

public class Test extends Thread
{
  public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException
  {
    Test t = new Test();

    try
    {
      t.start();
      t.join();
    }
    catch(RuntimeException e)
    {
      System.out.println("** RuntimeException from main");
    }

    System.out.println("Main stoped");
  }

  @Override
  public void run()
  {
    try
    {
      while(true)
      {
        System.out.println("** Started");

        sleep(2000);

        throw new RuntimeException("exception from thread");
      }
    }
    catch (RuntimeException e)
    {
      System.out.println("** RuntimeException from thread");

      throw e;
    } 
    catch (InterruptedException e)
    {

    }
  }
}

Anybody knows why?

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17 Answers

AtomicReference is also a solution to pass the error to the main thread .Is same approach like the one of Dan Cruz .

AtomicReference<Throwable> errorReference = new AtomicReference<>();

    Thread thread = new Thread() {
        public void run() {
            throw new RuntimeException("TEST EXCEPTION");

        }
    };
    thread.setUncaughtExceptionHandler((th, ex) -> {
        errorReference.set(ex);
    });
    thread.start();
    thread.join();
    Throwable newThreadError= errorReference.get();
    if (newThreadError!= null) {
        throw newThreadError;
    }

The only change is that instead of creating a volatile variable you can use AtomicReference which did same thing behind the scenes.

user_87028060

Also from Java 8 you can write Dan Cruz answer as:

Thread t = new Thread(()->{
            System.out.println("Sleeping ...");
            try {
                Thread.sleep(1000);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                System.out.println("Interrupted.");
            }
            System.out.println("Throwing exception ...");
            throw new RuntimeException(); });


t.setUncaughtExceptionHandler((th, ex)-> log(String.format("Exception in thread %d id: %s", th.getId(), ex)));
t.start();
user_74310830

For those who needs to stop all Threads running and re-run all of them when any one of them is stopped on an Exception:

@Override
public void onApplicationEvent(ContextRefreshedEvent event) {

     // could be any function
     getStockHistory();

}


public void getStockHistory() {

     // fill a list of symbol to be scrapped
     List<String> symbolListNYSE = stockEntityRepository
     .findByExchangeShortNameOnlySymbol(ContextRefreshExecutor.NYSE);


    storeSymbolList(symbolListNYSE, ContextRefreshExecutor.NYSE);

}


private void storeSymbolList(List<String> symbolList, String exchange) {

    int total = symbolList.size();

    // I create a list of Thread 
    List<Thread> listThread = new ArrayList<Thread>();

    // For each 1000 element of my scrapping ticker list I create a new Thread
    for (int i = 0; i <= total; i += 1000) {
        int l = i;

        Thread t1 = new Thread() {

            public void run() {

                // just a service that store in DB my ticker list
                storingService.getAndStoreStockPrice(symbolList, l, 1000, 
                MULTIPLE_STOCK_FILL, exchange);

            }

        };

    Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler h = new Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler() {
            public void uncaughtException(Thread thread, Throwable exception) {

                // stop thread if still running
                thread.interrupt();

                // go over every thread running and stop every one of them
                listThread.stream().forEach(tread -> tread.interrupt());

                // relaunch all the Thread via the main function
                getStockHistory();
            }
        };

        t1.start();
        t1.setUncaughtExceptionHandler(h);

        listThread.add(t1);

    }

}

To sum up :

You have a main function that create multiple thread, each of them has UncaughtExceptionHandler which is trigger by any Exception inside of a thread. You add every Thread to a List. If a UncaughtExceptionHandler is trigger it will loop through the List, stop every Thread and relaunch the main function recreation all the Thread.

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