'throw' caught by containing 'try' statement

Reports throw statements whose exceptions are always caught by containing try statements.

Using throw statements as a "goto" to change the local flow of control is confusing and results in poor performance.

Example:

  try {
    if (!Files.isDirectory(PROJECTS)) {
        throw new IllegalStateException("Directory not found."); // warning: 'throw' caught by containing 'try' statement
    }
    ...
  } catch (Exception e) {
      LOG.error("run failed");
  }

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

ThrowCaughtLocally

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Java | Error handling

Use the Ignore rethrown exceptions option to ignore exceptions that are rethrown.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the 'throw' caught by containing 'try' statement inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Ignore rethrown exceptions: Default value:
Not selected

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection ThrowCaughtLocally

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025