/* * Copyright (c) 2003, 2008, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. * ORACLE PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ package java.lang.annotation; /** * Thrown to indicate that a program has attempted to access an element of * an annotation type that was added to the annotation type definition after * the annotation was compiled (or serialized). This exception will not be * thrown if the new element has a default value. * This exception can be thrown by the {@linkplain * java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement API used to read annotations * reflectively}. * * @author Josh Bloch * @see java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement * @since 1.5 */ public class IncompleteAnnotationException extends RuntimeException { private static final long serialVersionUID = 8445097402741811912L; private Class annotationType; private String elementName; /** * Constructs an IncompleteAnnotationException to indicate that * the named element was missing from the specified annotation type. * * @param annotationType the Class object for the annotation type * @param elementName the name of the missing element */ public IncompleteAnnotationException( Class<? extends Annotation> annotationType, String elementName) { super(annotationType.getName() + " missing element " + elementName); this.annotationType = annotationType; this.elementName = elementName; } /** * Returns the Class object for the annotation type with the * missing element. * * @return the Class object for the annotation type with the * missing element */ public Class<? extends Annotation> annotationType() { return annotationType; } /** * Returns the name of the missing element. * * @return the name of the missing element */ public String elementName() { return elementName; } }