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Terminate function before calling again?

So I have been working on a program in Java. I have a function that runs some code, and when the code throws an exception I want to call it again. Like this:

public void x (String str) {
  try {
    // Initialize
  } catch (SomeException e) {
    System.out.println("Initializing again...");
  }
  try {
    // Do stuffz
  } catch (SomeOtherException e) {
    System.out.println("Trying again...");
    x(str);
  }
}

This works, but it will throw a stack overflow error if it throws the exception too many times. How can I stop the stack overflow error?

Solution

  • Maybe you could use a wrapper function, i.e. this:

    public void wrapper (String str) {
  while (true) {
    try {
      x(str);
    } catch (SomeException e1) {
      System.out.println("Initializing again...");
      continue;
    } catch (SomeOtherException e2) {
      System.out.println("Trying again...");
      continue;
    }
  }
}