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package java.lang;
/**
* Signals that an unexpected exception has occurred in a static initializer.
* An <code>ExceptionInInitializerError</code> is thrown to indicate that an
* exception occurred during evaluation of a static initializer or the
* initializer for a static variable.
*
* <p>As of release 1.4, this exception has been retrofitted to conform to
* the general purpose exception-chaining mechanism. The "saved throwable
* object" that may be provided at construction time and accessed via
* the {@link #getException()} method is now known as the <i>cause</i>,
* and may be accessed via the {@link Throwable#getCause()} method, as well
* as the aforementioned "legacy method."
*
* @author Frank Yellin
* @since JDK1.1
*/
public class
ExceptionInInitializerError extends
LinkageError {
/**
* Use serialVersionUID from JDK 1.1.X for interoperability
*/
private static final long
serialVersionUID = 1521711792217232256L;
/**
* This field holds the exception if the
* ExceptionInInitializerError(Throwable thrown) constructor was
* used to instantiate the object
*
* @serial
*
*/
private
Throwable exception;
/**
* Constructs an <code>ExceptionInInitializerError</code> with
* <code>null</code> as its detail message string and with no saved
* throwable object.
* A detail message is a String that describes this particular exception.
*/
public
ExceptionInInitializerError() {
initCause(null); // Disallow subsequent initCause
}
/**
* Constructs a new <code>ExceptionInInitializerError</code> class by
* saving a reference to the <code>Throwable</code> object thrown for
* later retrieval by the {@link #getException()} method. The detail
* message string is set to <code>null</code>.
*
* @param thrown The exception thrown
*/
public
ExceptionInInitializerError(
Throwable thrown) {
initCause(null); // Disallow subsequent initCause
this.
exception =
thrown;
}
/**
* Constructs an ExceptionInInitializerError with the specified detail
* message string. A detail message is a String that describes this
* particular exception. The detail message string is saved for later
* retrieval by the {@link Throwable#getMessage()} method. There is no
* saved throwable object.
*
*
* @param s the detail message
*/
public
ExceptionInInitializerError(
String s) {
super(
s);
initCause(null); // Disallow subsequent initCause
}
/**
* Returns the exception that occurred during a static initialization that
* caused this error to be created.
*
* <p>This method predates the general-purpose exception chaining facility.
* The {@link Throwable#getCause()} method is now the preferred means of
* obtaining this information.
*
* @return the saved throwable object of this
* <code>ExceptionInInitializerError</code>, or <code>null</code>
* if this <code>ExceptionInInitializerError</code> has no saved
* throwable object.
*/
public
Throwable getException() {
return
exception;
}
/**
* Returns the cause of this error (the exception that occurred
* during a static initialization that caused this error to be created).
*
* @return the cause of this error or <code>null</code> if the
* cause is nonexistent or unknown.
* @since 1.4
*/
public
Throwable getCause() {
return
exception;
}
}