1: /* AnnotationFormatError.java - Thrown when an binary annotation is malformed 2: Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation 3: 4: This file is part of GNU Classpath. 5: 6: GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 7: it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 8: the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 9: any later version. 10: 11: GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 12: WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 13: MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 14: General Public License for more details. 15: 16: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 17: along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 18: Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 19: 02110-1301 USA. 20: 21: Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 22: making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 23: conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 24: combination. 25: 26: As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 27: permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 28: executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 29: modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 30: terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 31: independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 32: module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 33: or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 34: this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 35: obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 36: exception statement from your version. */ 37: 38: package java.lang.annotation; 39: 40: /** 41: * Thrown when an annotation found in a class file is 42: * malformed. When the virtual machine finds a class file 43: * containing annotations, it attempts to parse them. 44: * This error is thrown if this operation fails. 45: * 46: * @author Tom Tromey (tromey@redhat.com) 47: * @author Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org) 48: * @since 1.5 49: */ 50: public class AnnotationFormatError extends Error 51: { 52: private static final long serialVersionUID = -4256701562333669892L; 53: 54: /** 55: * Constructs a new <code>AnnotationFormatError</code> 56: * using the specified message to give details of the error. 57: * 58: * @param message the message to use in the error output. 59: */ 60: public AnnotationFormatError(String message) 61: { 62: super(message); 63: } 64: 65: /** 66: * <p> 67: * Constructs a new <code>AnnotationFormatError</code> 68: * using the specified message to give details of the error. 69: * The supplied cause <code>Throwable</code> is used to 70: * provide additional history, with regards to the root 71: * of the problem. It is perfectly valid for this to be null, if 72: * the cause is unknown. 73: * </p> 74: * <p> 75: * <strong>Note</strong>: if a cause is supplied, the error 76: * message from this cause is not automatically included in the 77: * error message given by this error. 78: * </p> 79: * 80: * @param message the message to use in the error output 81: * @param cause the cause of this error, or null if the cause 82: * is unknown. 83: */ 84: public AnnotationFormatError(String message, Throwable cause) 85: { 86: super(message, cause); 87: } 88: 89: /** 90: * Constructs a new <code>AnnotationFormatError</code> using 91: * the supplied cause <code>Throwable</code> to 92: * provide additional history, with regards to the root 93: * of the problem. It is perfectly valid for this to be null, if 94: * the cause is unknown. If the cause is not null, the error 95: * message from this cause will also be used as the message 96: * for this error. 97: * 98: * @param cause the cause of the error. 99: */ 100: public AnnotationFormatError(Throwable cause) 101: { 102: super(cause); 103: } 104: 105: }