001 /* AnnotationFormatError.java - Thrown when an binary annotation is malformed 002 Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation 003 004 This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006 GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009 any later version. 010 011 GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014 General Public License for more details. 015 016 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017 along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 019 02110-1301 USA. 020 021 Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022 making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023 conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024 combination. 025 026 As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027 permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028 executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029 modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030 terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031 independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032 module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033 or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034 this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035 obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036 exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 package java.lang.annotation; 039 040 /** 041 * Thrown when an annotation found in a class file is 042 * malformed. When the virtual machine finds a class file 043 * containing annotations, it attempts to parse them. 044 * This error is thrown if this operation fails. 045 * 046 * @author Tom Tromey (tromey@redhat.com) 047 * @author Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org) 048 * @since 1.5 049 */ 050 public class AnnotationFormatError extends Error 051 { 052 private static final long serialVersionUID = -4256701562333669892L; 053 054 /** 055 * Constructs a new <code>AnnotationFormatError</code> 056 * using the specified message to give details of the error. 057 * 058 * @param message the message to use in the error output. 059 */ 060 public AnnotationFormatError(String message) 061 { 062 super(message); 063 } 064 065 /** 066 * <p> 067 * Constructs a new <code>AnnotationFormatError</code> 068 * using the specified message to give details of the error. 069 * The supplied cause <code>Throwable</code> is used to 070 * provide additional history, with regards to the root 071 * of the problem. It is perfectly valid for this to be null, if 072 * the cause is unknown. 073 * </p> 074 * <p> 075 * <strong>Note</strong>: if a cause is supplied, the error 076 * message from this cause is not automatically included in the 077 * error message given by this error. 078 * </p> 079 * 080 * @param message the message to use in the error output 081 * @param cause the cause of this error, or null if the cause 082 * is unknown. 083 */ 084 public AnnotationFormatError(String message, Throwable cause) 085 { 086 super(message, cause); 087 } 088 089 /** 090 * Constructs a new <code>AnnotationFormatError</code> using 091 * the supplied cause <code>Throwable</code> to 092 * provide additional history, with regards to the root 093 * of the problem. It is perfectly valid for this to be null, if 094 * the cause is unknown. If the cause is not null, the error 095 * message from this cause will also be used as the message 096 * for this error. 097 * 098 * @param cause the cause of the error. 099 */ 100 public AnnotationFormatError(Throwable cause) 101 { 102 super(cause); 103 } 104 105 }