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<h1 id="patching">Patching</h1>
<h2 id="finalizer">Finalizer</h2>
<p>A finalizer is a method that makes Harmony wrap the original and all other patches in a try/catch block. It can receive a thrown exception and even suppress it or return a different one.</p>
<p>It is a very good candidate for code that has to run regardless of what happens. Its counterpart is a Prefix with no side effects (void return type and no ref/out arguments). These are never skipped and thus serve as a way to run code guaranteed at the start of a method.</p>
<p>Finalizers are commonly used to:</p>
<ul>
<li>suppress exceptions</li>
<li>remap exceptions</li>
<li>make sure your code is always executed</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="suppressing-any-exceptions">Suppressing any exceptions</h3>
<pre><code class="lang-csharp">static Exception Finalizer()
{
return null;
}
</code></pre>
<h3 id="observing-exceptions">Observing exceptions</h3>
<pre><code class="lang-csharp">static void Finalizer(Exception __exception)
{
}
</code></pre>
<h3 id="changing-and-rethrowing-exceptions">Changing and rethrowing exceptions</h3>
<pre><code class="lang-csharp" name="example">[Serializable]
public class MyException : Exception
{
public MyException() { }
public MyException(string message) : base(message) { }
public MyException(string message, Exception innerException) : base(message, innerException) { }
protected MyException(SerializationInfo serializationInfo, StreamingContext streamingContext) =&gt; throw new NotImplementedException();
}
static Exception Finalizer(Exception __exception) =&gt; new MyException(&quot;Oops&quot;, __exception);
</code></pre>
<p>Beside their handling of exceptions they can receive the same arguments as Postfixes.</p>
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