Debugging exceptions with no known cause

There are times when you call a third party method in your code which throws an exception. Your line that invokes the third party code is not seen in the exception stack trace. In these cases, it is useful to wrap the call to the third party code in try catch block, catch Exception and log the resulting exception. The stack trace from the exception you log will have your code that is making the third party call, calls made by the third party code and likely a more detailed message of what went wrong.

 

e.g.:

 

class MyClass

{

    public void myMethod()

    {

        try

        {

            new ThirdPartyClass().thirdPartyMethod();

        }

        catch (Exception e)

        {

            e.printStackTrace();

        }

    }

}