Caught Throwable or Exception is null

Question

A similar question was asked here for two times and never there was any answer. Or the answer was: \"it is impossible!\" Sorry, it is possible too much:

Answer 1

If the exception you caught was a NullPointerException, the getMessage() method returns "null" which may be confusing. I know that this has sometimes confused me!

In the debugger, you should be able to select e and see a type and its fields. Also, another way to debug when things get really confusing is to go

 e.printStackTrace();

(note - I'm not an Android guru so if this works differently on Android somebody please comment!)