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Prefer functional error handling over throw expressions

Recipe IDorg.openrewrite.scala.recipes.errorhandling.PreferFunctionalErrorHandling
Artifactio.moderne.recipe:recipes-scala

Finds throw expressions inside method bodies that should use functional error handling. Throwing exceptions breaks referential transparency; prefer returning Try, Either, or Option.

Single recipeProprietary

Usage

This recipe has no required configuration options. You’ll need the Moderne CLI configured before running the command below.

mod run . --recipe org.openrewrite.scala.recipes.errorhandling.PreferFunctionalErrorHandling

If the recipe isn’t available locally, install it with:

mod config recipes jar install io.moderne.recipe:recipes-scala:0.3.1

Data tables

Structured output this recipe can produce.

  • Source files that had resultsSource files that were modified by the recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileResults
  • Source files that had search resultsSearch results that were found during the recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SearchResults
  • Source files that errored on a recipeThe details of all errors produced by a recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileErrors
  • Recipe performanceStatistics used in analyzing the performance of recipes.org.openrewrite.table.RecipeRunStats