RAISE

General Format

RAISE Exception-Class

Syntax Rules

1.	Exception-Class is a java.lang.Exception class or any known subclass.

General Rules

1.	If caught, the EXCEPTION-OBJECT will be set to the instance of the Exception-Class

Examples

Raise an exception when passed string is too long. Uses a user defined Java Class StringTooLongException.

configuration section.   repository.      class JString as "java.lang.String"      class JStringTooLongException as "StringTooLongException".     working-storage section.   77 StrExc            object reference JStringTooLongException.   77 exception-message pic x any length.   77 j-exc-message     object reference JString.     procedure division.   ...   raise-exception.     move "The string you passed is longer than defined" to exception-message     set j-exc-message to exception-message.     set StrExc to JStringTooLongException:>new(j-exc-message).     raise StrExc.

The Java Exception code is the following:

/** * StringTooLongException.java */   /**  * Signals that the passed string is too long  * @version              1.0  * @author               Veryant  */ public class StringTooLongException extends InvalidDataException {    public StringTooLongException() {          super();  }      public StringTooLongException(String message) {          super(message);  }     }