001/* AnnotationTypeMismatchException.java - Thrown when annotation has changed 002 Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation 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 038package java.lang.annotation; 039 040import java.lang.reflect.Method; 041 042/** 043 * Thrown when accessing an element within an annotation for 044 * which the type has changed, since compilation or serialization 045 * took place. The mismatch between the compiled or serialized 046 * type and the current type causes this exception to be thrown. 047 * 048 * @author Tom Tromey (tromey@redhat.com) 049 * @author Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org) 050 * @since 1.5 051 */ 052public class AnnotationTypeMismatchException extends RuntimeException 053{ 054 055 /** 056 * For compatability with Sun's JDK 057 */ 058 private static final long serialVersionUID = 8125925355765570191L; 059 060 /** 061 * Constructs an <code>AnnotationTypeMismatchException</code> 062 * which is due to a mismatched type in the annotation 063 * element, <code>m</code>. The erroneous type used for the 064 * data in <code>m</code> is represented by the string, 065 * <code>type</code>. This string is of an undefined format, 066 * and may contain the value as well as the type. 067 * 068 * @param m the element from the annotation. 069 * @param type the name of the erroneous type found in <code>m</code>. 070 */ 071 public AnnotationTypeMismatchException(Method m, String type) 072 { 073 this.element = m; 074 this.foundType = type; 075 } 076 077 /** 078 * Returns the element from the annotation, for which a 079 * mismatch occurred. 080 * 081 * @return the element with the mismatched type. 082 */ 083 public Method element() 084 { 085 return element; 086 } 087 088 /** 089 * Returns the erroneous type used by the element, 090 * represented as a <code>String</code>. The format 091 * of this <code>String</code> is not explicitly specified, 092 * and may contain the value as well as the type. 093 * 094 * @return the type found in the element. 095 */ 096 public String foundType() 097 { 098 return foundType; 099 } 100 101 // Names are chosen from serialization spec. 102 /** 103 * The element from the annotation. 104 * 105 * @serial the element with the mismatched type. 106 */ 107 private Method element; 108 109 /** 110 * The erroneous type used by the element. 111 * 112 * @serial the type found in the element. 113 */ 114 private String foundType; 115 116}