How to throw an Exception when your method signature doesn't allow to throw Exception?

Question

I have a method like this:

public void getSomething(){
...
}

I want to throw an Exception inside getSomething(). The

Answer 1

I don't know what you were trying to do. You could just throw an unchecked exception inside your method and then test using JUnit like in my example below.

public void getSomething() {
    throw new RuntimeException();
}

JUnit 4 test example:

@Test
public void testGetSomething() {
    try {
        getSomething();
        fail("Expecting RuntimeException!");
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Logger.getLogger("test").info("Exception was caught: " + e.getClass());
    }
}