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Prohibited 'Exception' caught

Reports catch clauses that catch an inappropriate exception.

Some exceptions, for example java.lang.NullPointerException or java.lang.IllegalMonitorStateException, represent programming errors and therefore almost certainly should not be caught in production code.

Example:

try { return component.getMousePosition(true) != null; } catch (NullPointerException e) { // warning: Prohibited exception 'NullPointerException' caught return false; }

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.

ProhibitedExceptionCaught
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 Prohibited exceptions list to specify which exceptions should be reported.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Prohibited 'Exception' caught inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Prohibited exceptions

Default value:

[java.lang.NullPointerException, java.lang.IllegalMonitorStateException, java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException, java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException, java.util.ConcurrentModificationException]

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 ProhibitedExceptionCaught

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

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025