Why is this handled exception causing a Force Close? [GeoCoder]

Question

I have the following in my AsyncTask:

@Override
protected Void doInBackground(Context... c) {

    try {
        context = c[0];

        myLocation = new Geocoder((Activity)context, Locale.getDefault()); 

        if(myLocation.isPresent())
            myList = myLocation.getFromLocation(LocationHandler.getLat(), LocationHandler.getLon(), 1);
    } 
    catch (IOException e) 
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    catch (Exception e) 
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    return null;
}

If I run this AsyncTask with no network connection, my application will Force Close with the following stack output:

 java.io.IOException: Unable to parse response from server
 at android.location.Geocoder.getFromLocation(Geocoder.java:136)
 at com.soyo.winnipegtransit.location.UpdateGeoCoderName.doInBackground(UpdateGeoCoderName.java:44)
 at com.soyo.winnipegtransit.location.UpdateGeoCoderName.doInBackground(UpdateGeoCoderName.java:1)
 at android.os.AsyncTask$2.call(AsyncTask.java:185)
 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:306)
 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1088)
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:581)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1019)

I'm not sure why this exception is going unhandled?

Answer 1

I've had similar problems with exceptions not being handled. It usually got solved by just handling the exception with one catch statement, don't ask me how but I'm sure there's a good reason behind this. Have you tried removing the catch(IOException e) and just keeping catch(Exception e) ?

Ryan