This rule reports catch blocks which check for the type of exception via is checks or casts. Instead of catching generic exception types and then checking for specific exception types the code should use multiple catch blocks. These catch blocks should then catch the specific exceptions.

Noncompliant Code

fun foo() {
    try {
        // ... do some I/O
    } catch(e: IOException) {
        if (e is MyException || (e as MyException) != null) { }
    }
}

Compliant Code

fun foo() {
    try {
        // ... do some I/O
    } catch(e: MyException) {
    } catch(e: IOException) {
    }
}

Options

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