Java 8: How do I work with exception throwing methods in streams?

Question

Suppose I have a class and a method

class A {
  void foo() throws Exception() {
    ...
  }
}

Now I would like to call foo for each instance of A delivered by a stream like:

void bar() throws Exception {
  Stream<A> as = ...
  as.forEach(a -> a.foo());
}

Question: How do I properly handle the exception? The code does not compile on my machine because I do not handle the possible exceptions that can be thrown by foo(). The throws Exception of bar seems to be useless here. Why is that?

Answer 1

You need to wrap your method call into another one, where you do not throw checked exceptions. You can still throw anything that is a subclass of RuntimeException.

A normal wrapping idiom is something like:

private void safeFoo(final A a) {
    try {
        a.foo();
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        throw new RuntimeException(ex);
    }
}

(Supertype exception Exception is only used as example, never try to catch it yourself)

Then you can call it with: as.forEach(this::safeFoo).