Catching and Throwing IOException Problem

[RKhadder]

This is my code

private String[][] getPasswords(String file) throws IOException
    {
        
        try
        {
            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
            String line;
            File f = new File(in.readLine());
            long fileSize = f.length();
            int length = (int)fileSize;
            String[][] correctPasswords= new String[length][2];
                for(int i = 0; i < length; i+=2)
                {
                    line = in.readLine();
                    correctPasswords[i][0] = line;
                    line = in.readLine();
                    correctPasswords[i][1] = line;
                }
            return correctPasswords;
            in.close();
        }
        catch (IOException e)
        {
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(controllingFrame, "Invalid Employee Code", "Error Message", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
        }
    }

I try to compile my code and I get an error code here:

private boolean isPasswordCorrect(char[] input)
    {
          String[][] correctPasswords = getPasswords(file);
          ...
     }

The error code says

unreported exceptio java.io.IOExceptionl; must be caught or declared to be thrown

How do I fix this?

[Norm]

The error message explains what you need to do: must be caught or declared to be thrown
Either put the code in a try{}catch block
Or declare the method the code is in to throw that exception
Look at the getPasswords() method. It does both

[RKhadder]

However when I do that since checkPassword is used by other methods I end up having to throw or catch exceptions eveywhere and then it starts looking messy. Is there anything else I can do?

[Eranga]

You can only throw checked exceptions from a method if the method declares these exceptions. See what you've done in isPasswordCorrect.

[Tolls]

Does getPasswords() actually throw an IOException?
I'm only asking because you catch one in that method and don't rethrow it.