Exceptions - Throw and catch right away

Question

Does it make sense to throw an exception and directly catch it just to print error?

if(...){

} else {
   try{
      throw new Exception();
   } catch (Exception         


        

Answer 1

There's no need to throw-and-catch, you can simply call:

new Exception().printStackTrace();

or even easier:

Thread.dumpStack();

You can also get the stack trace from the current thread as an array:

StackTraceElement[] trace = Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace();

If you want to do something more detailed like inspect the stack at runtime (e.g. to get the calling method's name).