'throw' inside 'finally' block

Reports throw statements inside finally blocks. While occasionally intended, such throw statements can hide exceptions thrown from the try and catch blocks, thereby complicating the debugging process.

Example:

  class Fascinating {
    void doTask(Task t) {
      try {
        t.activity();
      } finally {
        if (!t.finish()) {
          throw new IllegalStateException();
        }
      }
    }
  }

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.

ThrowFromFinallyBlock

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 Warn everywhere declared exceptions may be thrown option to warn on method calls to methods that declare exceptions as well.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the 'throw' inside 'finally' block inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Warn everywhere declared exceptions may be thrown: 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 ThrowFromFinallyBlock

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