001/* TypeNotPresentException.java -- Thrown when a string-based type is missing 002 Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 01902110-1301 USA. 020 021Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024combination. 025 026As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039package java.lang; 040 041/** 042 * <p> 043 * Thrown when a type is accessed using a <code>String</code>-based 044 * representation, but no definition of the supplied type is found. 045 * This is effectively an unchecked equivalent of the existing 046 * <code>ClassNotFound</code> exception. 047 * </p> 048 * <p> 049 * It may occur due to an attempt to load a missing class, interface or 050 * annotation, or when an undefined type variable is accessed. 051 * </p> 052 * 053 * @author Tom Tromey (tromey@redhat.com) 054 * @author Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org) 055 * @see ClassNotFoundException 056 * @since 1.5 057 */ 058public class TypeNotPresentException 059 extends RuntimeException 060{ 061 private static final long serialVersionUID = -5101214195716534496L; 062 063 /** 064 * Constructs a <code>TypeNotPresentException</code> for 065 * the supplied type. The specified cause <code>Throwable</code> 066 * may be used to provide additional history, with regards to the 067 * root of the problem. It is perfectly valid for this to be null, 068 * if the cause of the problem is unknown. 069 * 070 * @param typeName the name of the missing type. 071 * @param cause the cause of this exception, or null if the cause 072 * is unknown. 073 */ 074 public TypeNotPresentException(String typeName, Throwable cause) 075 { 076 super("type \"" + typeName + "\" not found", cause); 077 this.typeName = typeName; 078 } 079 080 /** 081 * Returns the name of the missing type. 082 * 083 * @return the missing type's name. 084 */ 085 public String typeName() 086 { 087 return typeName; 088 } 089 090 /** 091 * The name of the missing type. 092 * 093 * @serial the missing type's name. 094 */ 095 // Name fixed by serialization. 096 private String typeName; 097 098}