throws

Declares that a method may throw one or more checked exceptions, requiring callers to handle or re-declare them.

Syntax

java

returnType methodName(params) throws ExceptionType { }

Example

java

public void readFile(String path) throws IOException {
  FileReader fr = new FileReader(path);
  // ...
}

// Caller must handle it:
try { readFile("data.txt"); }
catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }