Doubt about CH7 Q10 (K&B7)

[Mohana Avu]

Chapter 7 (Assertions and Java7 Exceptions) Q&A Self test Question : 10

The answer is marked as D.
Shouldn't this be F : RuntimeException c with suppressed RuntimeException a
If I change the program to display suppressed exceptions as follows -

class Animals{
	class Lamb implements Closeable{
		public void close(){throw new RuntimeException("a");}
	}

	public static void main(String[] args){
		new Animals().run();
	}
	void run(){
		try(Lamb l = new Lamb();){
			throw new IOException();
		}catch (Exception e){
			for (Throwable t:e.getSuppressed()) System.out.println("Supp :"+t);
			throw new RuntimeException("c");


		}
	}
}

I get the output -
Supp : java.lang.RuntimeException :a
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: c

[Roel De Nijs]

No! The answer and explanation in the book or spot-on.

When you run the program unchanged, you'll get this output:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: c
at Animals.run(Animals.java:38)
at Animals.main(Animals.java:32)

And that exactly matches with option D: RuntimeException c with no suppressed exception.

If you would make some small modifications to the code snippet, so you simply could rethrow the exception from the catch block as shown in this code snippet:

public class Animals {
    class Lamb implements Closeable {
      public void close() {
        throw new RuntimeException("a");
      } }
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
      new Animals().run();
    }
    public void run() throws Exception {
      try (Lamb l = new Lamb();) {
      throw new IOException();
      } catch(Exception e) {
          throw e;
      } } }

Then you get this output:
Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException
at AnimalsForum.run(Animals.java:14)
at AnimalsForum.main(Animals.java:10)
Suppressed: java.lang.RuntimeException: a
at AnimalsForum$Lamb.close(Animals.java:6)
at AnimalsForum.run(Animals.java:15)
... 1 more

And this output matches exactly with option A (not F): IOException with suppressed RuntimeException a

The explanation in the book explains this perfectly: the exception caught by the catch block matches A (an IOException with a suppressed RuntimeException a), but this exception is completely ignored. The catch block just throws a (new) RuntimeException c (with no suppressed exceptions).

Hope it makes some sense and clears your doubt!
Kind regards,
Roel