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Mgjbot Nanto vi Ptak82 Maian Nickolay Dria try...catch In This Article SyntaxDescriptionUnconditional catch clauseConditional catch clausesThe exception identifierThe finally clauseExamplesNested try-blocksReturning from a finally blockSpecificationsBrowser compatibilitySee also The try...catch statement marks a block of statements to try, and specifies a response, should an exception be thrown. Syntax try { try_statements } [catch (exception_var_1 if condition_1) { // non-standard catch_statements_1 }] ... [catch (exception_var_2) { catch_statements_2 }] [finally { finally_statements }] javascript error handling try_statements The statements to be executed. catch_statements_1, catch_statements_2 Statements that are executed if an exception is thrown in the try block. exception_var_1, exception_var_2 An identifier to hold an exception object for the associated catch clause. condition_1 A conditional expression. finally_statements Statements that are executed after the try statement completes. These statements execute regardless of whether or not an exception was thrown or caught. Description The try statement consists of a try block, which contains one or more statements ({} must always be used, also for single statements), and at least one catch clause or a finally clause, or both. That is, there are three forms of the try statement: try...catch try...finally try...catch...finally A catch clause contain statements that specify what to do if an exception is thrown in the try block. That is, you want the try block to succeed, and if it does not succeed, you want control to pass to the catch block. If any statement within the try block (or in a function called from within the try block) throws an exception, control immediately shifts to the catch clause. If no exception is thrown in the try block, the catch clause is skipped. The finally clause executes after the try block and catch clause
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JavaScript, has been maturing since the dark ages of Netscape and IE4. No longer are you forced to settle for what the browser throws in your face in an event of a JavaScript error, but instead can take the matter into your own http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/trycatch.shtml hands. The try/catch/finally statement of JavaScript lets you dip your toes into error prune territory and "reroute" when a JavaScript "exception" is encountered. Along with other defensive coding techniques such as Object detection and the onError event, http://javascript.info/tutorial/exceptions try/catch/finally adds the ability to navigate around certain errors that in the past would have instantly stopped your script at its tracks. No more! try/catch/finally try/catch/finally are so called exception handling statements in JavaScript. An exception error trapping is an error that occurs at runtime due to an illegal operation during execution. Examples of exceptions include trying to reference an undefined variable, or calling a non existent method. This versus syntax errors, which are errors that occur when there is a problem with your JavaScript syntax. Consider the following examples of syntax errors versus exceptions: alert("I am missing a closing parenthesis //syntax error alert(x) //exception assuming "x" isn't defined yet error java script undefinedfunction() //exception try/catch/finally lets you deal with exceptions gracefully. It does not catch syntax errors, however (for those, you need to use the onerror event). Normally whenever the browser runs into an exception somewhere in a JavaScript code, it displays an error message to the user while aborting the execution of the remaining code. You can put a lid on this behaviour and handle the error the way you see fit using try/catch/finally. At its simplest you'd just use try/catch to try and run some code, and in the event of any exceptions, suppress them: try{ undefinedfunction() } catch(e){ //catch and just suppress error } Assuming undefinedfunction() is undefined, when the browser runs the above, no errors will be shown. The syntax for try/catch/finally is a try clause followed by either a catch or finally clause (at least one or both of them). The catch clause if defined traps any errors that has occurred from try, and is indirectly passed the error object that contains additional info about the error. Lets see a slightly more complex example now: try{ undefinedfunction() alert('I guess you do exist') } catch(e){ alert('An error has occurred: '+e.message) } Demo: Click on the above button, and notice how only "An Error has occurred" alert pops up, but not "I guess you do
form of try..catch..finally try..catch..finally and return The throw statement A validator example Changes in the usage pattern Comparison Exception analysis and rethrow Summary Understanding exception is important to object-oriented programming in general and JavaScript in particular. Exceptions is a special, very powerful way to deal with errors. Check-first error handling Let's take a bad code as an example. Like this: nonexistant() In the example above, a non-existing variable is accessed. What should a program do in this case? The simple and very old concept is that the program dies. Let's say we want to evade that sorrowful happening. So, what to do in case when the variable may be undefined? The simple way is to check it. Something like that: if (window.func) { func() } There still may be an error if window.func is not a function. So we'll need to check for it as well: if (typeof(func) == 'function') { func() } In the code above, typeof ensures that the variable exists and it is actually a function. Hopefully we performed all necessary checks to ensure that running func is safe. But what if it isn't? What if the func body has errors? Again, we want to handle the error, not let the script just die. And here the try..catch construct kicks in. The try..catch construct The try..catch approaches the error handling from another side. Instead of "check if all ok, then do" approach, we try then catch errors. A completely different way to handle errors which replaces the checking code. The function example would look like: try { func() } catch(e) { alert(e) } If an error occurs inside the try block, the control is passed to the catch(e) section. It's argument e is assigned to a special exception object which contains the information about what happened. The variable e contains an instance of Error object (or it's inheritant like TypeError, ReferenceError etc). The error properties are little bit different between browsers, see Error in MDN and Error in MSDN for details. But there are always basic attributes: name The error type, for browser-generated errors it matches error constructor function, like TypeError, ReferenceError etc. message The text message which tells more about the error. Now l