Replace a checked exception with a runtime exception?

Question

Given that I basically want to eliminate checked exception usage and transform them to runtime exceptions, I would normally be doing something like this:

try {
          


        

Answer 1

As of Java 8 there's another way:

try {
  // some code that can throw both checked and runtime exception
} catch (Exception e) {
  throw rethrow(e);
}

@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public static  RuntimeException rethrow(Throwable throwable) throws T {
    throw (T) throwable; // rely on vacuous cast
}

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