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scala.util.Success.flatMap catching too many exceptions while it's documented to not do that #6190

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scabug opened this issue Aug 5, 2012 · 2 comments
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scabug commented Aug 5, 2012

While this is fine:

scala> val res = scala.util.Success(1).flatMap(x => throw new Exception)
res: scala.util.Try[Nothing] = Failure(java.lang.Exception)

The documentation seems to suggest that this is not expected (the exception should be thrown instead):

scala> val res = scala.util.Success(1).flatMap(x => throw new ThreadDeath)
res: scala.util.Try[Nothing] = Failure(java.lang.ThreadDeath)

Docs say that:

  • ''Note'': only non-fatal exceptions are caught by the combinators on Try (see [[scala.util.control.NonFatal]]).
  • Serious system errors, on the other hand, will be thrown.

Within class Success, the bug seems to be here (comment added):

  def flatMap[U](f: T => Try[U]): Try[U] =
    try f(value)
    catch {
      case e => Failure(e) //XXX This should be case NonFatal(e)!
    }
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scabug commented Aug 5, 2012

Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-6190?orig=1
Reporter: @Blaisorblade
Affected Versions: 2.10.0-M6

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scabug commented Aug 25, 2012

@Blaisorblade said (edited on Aug 25, 2012 5:00:30 PM UTC):
This was silently fixed in commit 3cb0e784a05db7d0b542cec9bf4c5fbf3772a6cf, at least judging from the source code. However, no test case was introduced for fatal exceptions — otherwise, I would close this issue.
UPDATE: I tried addressing this in scala/scala#1195.

@scabug scabug closed this as completed Aug 29, 2012
@scabug scabug added the library label Apr 7, 2017
@scabug scabug added this to the 2.10.0-M7 milestone Apr 7, 2017
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