Is there any workaround to avoid `@Throws` annotation and handle the error on the native platform si...

# kotlin-native

[Kartik Prakash]

Is there any workaround to avoid @Throws annotation and handle the error on the native platform side. For example I have function in kotlin native that can throw SocketTimeoutException , Is there anyway to handle it on the iOS side without adding the @Throws annotation on my function?

[mkrussel]

Convert to using return types like Result instead of throwing an exception.

[Kartik Prakash]

yeah that seems like an option. But feels weird to catch all the exceptions the function can potentially throw and wrap it to a return type.

@mkrussel anychance you have used unhandledExceptionHook before?

https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.native/set-unhandled-exception-hook.html

[mkrussel]

No. Right now I only use exceptions for programmers bugs and don't handle them.

Anything that is expected like IOExceptions, I catch at the point of the IO and convert to result type objects. I feel this is safer, since Kotlin doesn't have checked exceptions. There also aren't that many places where I would have used checked exceptions (pretty much just IO work).

[Kartik Prakash]

gotcha. That makes sense. Thank you for the prompt replies, appreciate it.