Overview Package Class Use Tree Deprecated Index Help		JavaTM 2 Platform Standard Ed. 5.0
PREV CLASS NEXT CLASS	FRAMES NO FRAMES All Classes
SUMMARY: NESTED | FIELD | CONSTR | METHOD	DETAIL: FIELD | CONSTR | METHOD

---

java.io
Class InvalidClassException

java.lang.Object
 extended by java.lang.Throwable
 extended by java.lang.Exception
 extended by java.io.IOException
 extended by java.io.ObjectStreamException
 extended by java.io.InvalidClassException

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

---

public class InvalidClassException
extends ObjectStreamException

Thrown when the Serialization runtime detects one of the following problems with a Class.

• The serial version of the class does not match that of the class descriptor read from the stream
• The class contains unknown datatypes
• The class does not have an accessible no-arg constructor

Since:

JDK1.1

See Also:

Serialized Form

---

Field Summary
String	classname Name of the invalid class.

Constructor Summary
InvalidClassException(String reason) Report a InvalidClassException for the reason specified.
InvalidClassException(String cname, String reason) Constructs an InvalidClassException object.

Method Summary
String	getMessage() Produce the message and include the classname, if present.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Throwable
fillInStackTrace, getCause, getLocalizedMessage, getStackTrace, initCause, printStackTrace, printStackTrace, printStackTrace, setStackTrace, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

classname

public String classname

Name of the invalid class.

Constructor Detail

InvalidClassException

public InvalidClassException(String reason)

Report a InvalidClassException for the reason specified.

Parameters:

reason - String describing the reason for the exception.

---

InvalidClassException

public InvalidClassException(String cname,
 String reason)

Constructs an InvalidClassException object.

Parameters:

cname - a String naming the invalid class.

reason - a String describing the reason for the exception.

Method Detail

getMessage

public String getMessage()

Produce the message and include the classname, if present.

Overrides:

getMessage in class Throwable

Returns:

the detail message string of this Throwable instance (which may be null).

---

Overview Package Class Use Tree Deprecated Index Help		JavaTM 2 Platform Standard Ed. 5.0
PREV CLASS NEXT CLASS	FRAMES NO FRAMES All Classes
SUMMARY: NESTED | FIELD | CONSTR | METHOD	DETAIL: FIELD | CONSTR | METHOD

---

Submit a bug or feature
For further API reference and developer documentation, see Java 2 SDK SE Developer Documentation. That documentation contains more detailed, developer-targeted descriptions, with conceptual overviews, definitions of terms, workarounds, and working code examples.

Copyright © 2004, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Also see the documentation redistribution policy.