Revised IllegalArgumentException handling for Formatter parse calls

Issue: SPR-14661
(cherry picked from commit 73bbe08)

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/AbstractNestablePropertyAccessor.java

@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractNestablePropertyAccessor extends AbstractPropertyA
 					new PropertyChangeEvent(this.rootObject, this.nestedPath + propertyName, oldValue, newValue);
 			throw new ConversionNotSupportedException(pce, requiredType, ex);
 		}
-		catch (Throwable ex) {
+		catch (IllegalArgumentException ex) {
 			PropertyChangeEvent pce =
 					new PropertyChangeEvent(this.rootObject, this.nestedPath + propertyName, oldValue, newValue);
 			throw new TypeMismatchException(pce, requiredType, ex);
@@ -914,9 +914,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractNestablePropertyAccessor extends AbstractPropertyA
 				return BeanUtils.instantiate(type);
 			}
 		}
-		catch (Exception ex) {
-			// TODO: Root cause exception context is lost here; just exception message preserved.
-			// Should we throw another exception type that preserves context instead?
+		catch (Throwable ex) {
 			throw new NullValueInNestedPathException(getRootClass(), this.nestedPath + name,
 					"Could not instantiate property type [" + type.getName() + "] to auto-grow nested property path: " + ex);
 		}

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/TypeConverterSupport.java

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ public abstract class TypeConverterSupport extends PropertyEditorRegistrySupport
 		catch (IllegalStateException ex) {
 			throw new ConversionNotSupportedException(value, requiredType, ex);
 		}
-		catch (Throwable ex) {
+		catch (IllegalArgumentException ex) {
 			throw new TypeMismatchException(value, requiredType, ex);
 		}
 	}

spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/format/support/FormatterPropertyEditorAdapter.java

@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ package org.springframework.format.support;
 
 import java.beans.PropertyEditor;
 import java.beans.PropertyEditorSupport;
-import java.text.ParseException;
 
 import org.springframework.context.i18n.LocaleContextHolder;
 import org.springframework.format.Formatter;
@@ -65,7 +64,10 @@ public class FormatterPropertyEditorAdapter extends PropertyEditorSupport {
 			try {
 				setValue(this.formatter.parse(text, LocaleContextHolder.getLocale()));
 			}
-			catch (ParseException ex) {
+			catch (IllegalArgumentException ex) {
+				throw ex;
+			}
+			catch (Throwable ex) {
 				throw new IllegalArgumentException("Parse attempt failed for value [" + text + "]", ex);
 			}
 		}

spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/format/support/FormattingConversionService.java

@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 package org.springframework.format.support;
 
 import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
-import java.text.ParseException;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
@@ -193,11 +192,14 @@ public class FormattingConversionService extends GenericConversionService
 			try {
 				result = this.parser.parse(text, LocaleContextHolder.getLocale());
 			}
-			catch (ParseException ex) {
+			catch (IllegalArgumentException ex) {
+				throw ex;
+			}
+			catch (Throwable ex) {
 				throw new IllegalArgumentException("Parse attempt failed for value [" + text + "]", ex);
 			}
 			if (result == null) {
-				throw new IllegalStateException("Parsers are not allowed to return null");
+				throw new IllegalStateException("Parsers are not allowed to return null: " + this.parser);
 			}
 			TypeDescriptor resultType = TypeDescriptor.valueOf(result.getClass());
 			if (!resultType.isAssignableTo(targetType)) {