This is a general ticket to collect things related to error handling, eg which exception types we should use, what is an error and what is not.

• New API: FileAnalysisException: supertype for lexer, parser, semantic errors. Has info about the file where the exception happened
• Revisit exception handling logic with listeners
• Align CPD errors and PMD errors
• New concept: Semantic errors. Language specific errors that can skip rule analysis if the code is malformed.
  • [core] Abort on semantic errors #3892
  • Report typing errors more thoroughly in Java, see 6d2858d
  • Show context of errors when they occur in a file. SemanticErrorReporter just shows file + line + column for now.

Context:

That's maybe good for now, but we should think about this again. We can't say for all exceptions, that we can simply go on with the analysis and assume the results are valid.
I think, there are certain error conditions, for which is doesn't make sense to even try to run PMD further (although I don't have a good example right now).

Originally posted by @adangel in #3692 (comment)