Handling exceptions, is this a good way?

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If you log the exception too near the time it is first thrown, you won’t be logging the full stack trace.

Handle exceptions (that is, fix them), as close as possible to when they were thrown. Gather information about the context as soon as possible to when they were thrown. But allow exceptions to propagate up to where they can actually be handled. Logging is a last-resort sort of handling, so it should occur in the outer layers of application subsystems.

This should eliminate the need for an application-specific exception used as a marker to not log an exception which shouldn’t have been caught to begin with.

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