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* Copyright (c) 1994, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |
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* DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. |
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* This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
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* published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this |
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* particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided |
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* by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. |
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* This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT |
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* ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or |
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* FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License |
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* version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that |
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* accompanied this code). |
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version |
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* 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, |
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* Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. |
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* |
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* Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA |
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* or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any |
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* questions. |
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package java.lang; |
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/** |
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* The class {@code Exception} and its subclasses are a form of |
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* {@code Throwable} that indicates conditions that a reasonable |
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* application might want to catch. |
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* <p>The class {@code Exception} and any subclasses that are not also |
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* subclasses of {@link RuntimeException} are <em>checked |
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* exceptions</em>. Checked exceptions need to be declared in a |
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* method or constructor's {@code throws} clause if they can be thrown |
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* by the execution of the method or constructor and propagate outside |
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* the method or constructor boundary. |
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* @author Frank Yellin |
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* @see java.lang.Error |
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* @jls3 11.2 Compile-Time Checking of Exceptions |
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* @since JDK1.0 |
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public class Exception extends Throwable { |
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static final long serialVersionUID = -3387516993124229948L; |
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* Constructs a new exception with {@code null} as its detail message. |
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* The cause is not initialized, and may subsequently be initialized by a |
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* call to {@link #initCause}. |
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public Exception() { |
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super(); |
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* Constructs a new exception with the specified detail message. The |
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* cause is not initialized, and may subsequently be initialized by |
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* @param message the detail message. The detail message is saved for |
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public Exception(String message) { |
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* Constructs a new exception with the specified detail message and |
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* {@code cause} is <i>not</i> automatically incorporated in |
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* this exception's detail message. |
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* @param message the detail message (which is saved for later retrieval |
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* by the {@link #getMessage()} method). |
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* @param cause the cause (which is saved for later retrieval by the |
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* {@link #getCause()} method). (A <tt>null</tt> value is |
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* permitted, and indicates that the cause is nonexistent or |
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* @since 1.4 |
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public Exception(String message, Throwable cause) { |
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* Constructs a new exception with the specified cause and a detail |
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* message of <tt>(cause==null ? null : cause.toString())</tt> (which |
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* This constructor is useful for exceptions that are little more than |
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* wrappers for other throwables (for example, {@link |
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* @param cause the cause (which is saved for later retrieval by the |
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* {@link #getCause()} method). (A <tt>null</tt> value is |
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* @since 1.4 |
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public Exception(Throwable cause) { |
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super(cause); |
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} |